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Living off the logs in NZ

13 July 2017
Setting the political issues aside, the logging industry can be viewed in a completely different light. Whanganui-based Hickford Logging is just an 8-man band at the coalface harvesting a 260-hectare pine forest in the steep hills inland from Maxwell, yet an entire community feasts of
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Forestry NSW replants eucalypt plantations

13 July 2017
Forestry Corporation of NSW has completed a two-week operation to replant the eucalypt plantations harvested last year in Tarkeeth State Forest, but concerned residents have dubbed the announcement as “window dressing”. Source: Coffs Coast Advocate A logging operation has been t
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Hydrowood’s lost treasure of rare timber resurfaces

13 July 2017
Beneath the dark, frigid waters of Tasmania’s hydro-electric lakes lies a vast, lost treasure. The island’s hydro schemes — constructed throughout the 20th century — dragged its economy into the industrial age. Source: The Australian They also flooded large tracts of old-growth forest
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$145 to restore native beech forests

13 July 2017
A further NZ$145,000 will be invested in the restoration of native beech forests in New Zealand, boosting the Government’s efforts to protect our native species, Associate Environment Minister Scott Simpson announced. Source: Scoop NZ The funding from the Government’s Community Enviro
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VicForests 2017 Resource Outlook

13 July 2017
VicForests has released its 2017 Resource Outlook which forecasts the amount of high quality timber that can be commercially supplied from State forests in eastern Victoria on a sustainable basis. Source: Timberbiz Nathan Trushell, Acting CEO VicForests said the Resource Outlook is de
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Grinder to divert timber waste in WA

13 July 2017
Representatives from Ceduna, Streaky Bay and Wudinna councils in Western Australia were on hand last Friday for a demonstration of the benefits of a new horizontal grinder which was purchased by Ceduna Recycling. Source: West Coast Sentinel A $110,000 grant received earlier this year
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Ricky Muir joins Shooter, Fishers and Farmers party

13 July 2017
Ricky Muir appears set to run for a seat in the Victorian parliament. The former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party senator, who now runs a small sawmill in Gippsland, has announced he is joining the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party. Source: The Yass Tribune “Leaving the Se
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Leadbeaters to wipe $15m from the timber industry

13 July 2017
Exclusion zones to protect Victoria’s tiny emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum, have reduced the animal’s risk of extinction but will wipe nearly $15 million from the timber industry. Source: News.com.au There are now 436 possum colonies protected in state forest by timb
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City electorate can decide on forestry

13 July 2017
High-profile state government MP Jane Garrett faces a backlash at next year’s Victorian election over one of Labor’s most challenging issues: logging in native forests. Source: The Age New polling in Ms Garrett’s inner-city seat of Brunswick suggests almost half her
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Radial sawing a commercial reality

13 July 2017
The deafening din is the same as any sawmill, but the timber rolling off the conveyor belt is far from conventional. It has been radially sawn, a milling technique that delivers some enormous advantages over existing methods. Source: ABC News “Basically we cut up timber differen
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