High Court opens Pandora’s Box of protests
25 October 2017
Tasmania’s forestry industry fears a “bizarre” High Court decision has opened a “Pandora’s box of militant protests” and is urging the state government to draft new laws urgently. Source: The Australian Forest Industries Association of Tasmania chairman and major sawmiller Glenn Britt
Continue Reading →KPMG Pine Log Price Index
25 October 2017
The Australian Pine Log Price Index (“the Index”) is compiled by KPMG using data provided by Australian softwood growers. The Index documents changes in pine log prices achieved by large-scale commercial plantation owners selling common grades of plantation softwood logs to domestic p
Continue Reading →Multiple-use forests more benefit than a new national park
25 October 2017
Euan Ferguson, Victorian Chair of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA), says there is no benefit in creating a ‘Great Forest National Park’ in Victoria’s Central Highlands forests. Source: Timberbiz “Most of the region’s forests are already contained in conservation and water
Continue Reading →City greens want country forest
25 October 2017
State-owned logging company VicForests relied on a $4.8 million payment from the Andrews government to turn a profit this year, for work it is doing to create homes for the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum. Source: The Age The payment, revealed in VicForests’ annu
Continue Reading →VicForests in the black
25 October 2017
VicForests has achieved a positive profit from operations before tax of $1.5 million in 2016/17, highlighting the continued demand for native timber in Victoria. Source: Timberbiz According to VicForest it is a good result considering the operational challenges faced. The company’s re
Continue Reading →Tree planting with drones already in Australia
19 October 2017
Along with taking lives and causing millions of dollars in property damage, the wildfires in California are scorching the land in another way: Millions of trees are being destroyed. Source: CBS News The blazes have charred more than 770,000 acres in the state alone, as fires around th
Continue Reading →Logging without consent in Solomon Islands
19 October 2017
A landowner group in Temotu province of Solomon islands says logging is underway on their land without consent. Source: Radio New Zealand According to locals on Temotu’s largest island Nende there are three logging camps in operation there without the required permits. The loggi
Continue Reading →Smartphone app to predict log drying
19 October 2017
A new smartphone app has been developed to predict the moisture content of log piles undergoing infield drying. Inputs in the preliminary version of the app include log type, tree species, location and season. Source: Timberbiz Future development will include more specific weather inf
Continue Reading →Trainee of the Year for Northland NZ
19 October 2017
Michelle Harrison takes health and safety in the forestry industry very seriously. The 35-year-old, who won Trainee of the Year at this year’s Northland Forestry Awards, also looks out for kiwi during log harvesting. Sources: The Northern Advocate, New Zealand Herald She lives i
Continue Reading →Computer calculated forestry yields
19 October 2017
What if forestry yield estimates could be calculated sitting in front of a computer using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, rather than going out into the field? Source: Timberbiz A FWPA funded project looking into exactly that has recently been profiled in the Brazilian forestry publi
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