On Saturday 20 July HQP will hold its Fraser Coast Plantation Community Day to show what it takes to grow a sustainable forest. Source: Timberbiz
HQP’s pine plantations on the Fraser Coast are among the biggest in the southern hemisphere and grow up to 10 million seedling a year.
Local houses are built from renewable timber that’s grown and milled locally.
Growing for generations supports a thriving economy of large and small local businesses and their employees including sawmills, civil construction, hauliers, harvesters, scientists, foresters, fire fighters, nursery workers and labourers even helicopters pilots and drone operators.
This work is mostly done quietly and unseen, but on 20 July, with help from industry and community partners, it will be on display at the Toolara Forest Office on Tin Can Bay Road from 9am until 2pm.
You’ll see every aspect of the plantation lifecycle and some of the machines and technology used from seedling to sawmill on display from HQP and:
- Wood processors and major employers Hyne Timber and Laminex
- Harvest and hauliers Sunchip, Ashers and GMT Logging
- Roading construction contractors including McKenna’s
- Silviculture operators who undertake planting and maintenance such as K&S Contracting, Crossing Works, Butchulla Indigenous Industries Group and Wide Bay Drones
- Other suppliers including EXCI artificial intelligence fire detection
- Local First Nations groups Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation and Butchulla Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, current and traditional custodians
- Community and environment partners including local rural fire brigades, Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee, Gympie Landcare, Glenwood Wildlife Awareness and Cooloola Nature.
