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AFCA restructure Carlie Porteous to step back

17 May 2023
With a forward focus on the strategic opportunities and operational challenges for forest contracting businesses, peak body Australian Forest Contractors Association is restructuring. Source: Timberbiz “AFCA has experienced considerable growth in its membership base,” Adan Taylor, Cha
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Biochar the winner of New Wood competition

15 May 2023
The jury of the Uusi Puu – New Wood competition selected as winner a carbon negative biochar that improves the growth conditions of soil. Source: Forest.fi Finnish MPs and experts of forest bioeconomy chose the winning entry in the 2023 Uusi Puu – New Wood competition: it is the bioch
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No shortage of old growth in the US

15 May 2023
For more than 40 years, the anti-forestry movement has rallied around saving the “last of the old growth” on Us federal lands, as if entire national forests had been logged into moonscapes and only a few big trees remained. Source: Timberbiz More recently, they cheered when President
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Waratah Group founder passes away in New Zealand

15 May 2023
David Cochrane, 77, founder of the Waratah Group, recently passed away. A true visionary, Mr Cochrane started Waratah General Engineering in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1973 with the development of a mechanized processing head designed to withstand New Zealand and North American logging c
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Forestry Corp opens the doors to its frog hotels

15 May 2023
Olney State Forest is home to a series of frog ‘hotels’ designed to support threatened frog species, thanks to a partnership between Forestry Corporation of NSW and the University of Newcastle. Source: Timberbiz The new artificial ponds form a network of breeding habitat for iconic sp
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More hazard reduction burning in NSW

15 May 2023
A hazard reduction burn took place in Pine Brush State Forest, north-east of Grafton, as the Forestry Corporation of NSW reduces forest fuel loads ahead of the bushfire season. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation’s hazard reduction burn was across 1000-hectares in the Pine Brush St
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Masterplan for Mount Gambier education

15 May 2023
  Former South Australian Governor Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce has been appointed by the South Australian Government to create a masterplan for the Mount Gambier Education and Training Precinct. Source: Timberbiz Rear Admiral Scarce will be the independent chair of the committee to
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NZ Forest Owners says Ministerial Inquiry missed the target

15 May 2023
New Zealand’s Forest Owners Association says the Ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tarāwhiti has a core of practical recommendations but has not addressed some more difficult and fundamental issues. Source: Timberbiz President, Grant Dodson says concentrating on changing forest har
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NZ Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use proffers 50 recommendations

15 May 2023
The Panel for the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa has published its report, Outrage to Optimism, with nearly 50 recommendations for turning around the communities’ post-flood desperate circumstances. Source: Timberbiz The report of the Ministerial Inquiry in
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Gippsland Performing Arts Centre in Victorian Architecture short list

15 May 2023
Traralgon’s Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, or GPAC, has made the regional prize shortlist in the 2023 Victorian Architecture Awards. Source: LaTrobe Valley Express The awards program celebrates the top architectural outcomes across the state, spanning categories of public architect
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