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Dean O’Connor new national sales manager Komatsu

20 September 2023
Komatsu Forest has appointed Dean O’Connor National Sales Manager for Australia. He will also retain responsibility for Komatsu Forest operations in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz Mr O’Connor is an experienced timber industry professional who has been in the industry since the early n
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MechLog wins Tas Timber Award for harvesting excellence

20 September 2023
Mechanised Logging (MechLog), a pioneering force in Tasmania’s forest industries sector has won the prestigious 2023 Tasmanian Timber Awards for Harvesting Excellence. Source: Timberbiz The Tasmanian Timber Awards, organised by the Tasmanian Forests & Forest Products Network, serv
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Fire bans already in place for New South Wales

20 September 2023
Forestry Corporation has announced the start of the plantation fire threat period on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. The Bathurst Management Region has introduced a solid fuel fire ban from today, Tuesday, 19 September 2023. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation Community
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Threat of bushfires spurs Gippsland meeting

20 September 2023
The Howitt Society is concerned at the lack of broad scale fuel management operations in East Gippsland over the past four years post the 2019/20 fires. With the forecast of higher than usual fire danger in East Gippsland, due to drought conditions, there is the prospect of serious fi
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Firewood cutters to be the latest victims of Victorian lawfare

20 September 2023
Mum and dad firewood cutters Kate and Dale Tiley have become the latest victims of an environmental group’s green lawfare. Source: The Weekly Times The Tileys have been told to seek urgent legal advice, as the Wombat Forestcare Group launches a bid to stop them and four other commerci
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Replanted forests recover more quickly

18 September 2023
Satellite observations of one of the world’s biggest ecological experiments on the island of Borneo have revealed that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can significantly accelerate their recovery. The results have been published in the journal Science Advan
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Canfor to build state-of-the-art new mill

18 September 2023
Canfor Corporation announced that it will be investing approximately Can$200 million to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Houston, British Columbia. This low cost, high efficiency facility will have an annual production capacity of approximately 350 million board
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Verification for birch plywood worldwide including Australia

18 September 2023
Assurance Services International (ASI), is launching a transaction verification (TV) loop on the FSC-certified supply chains of birch plywood. Birch plywood is a highly traded product worldwide. Source: Timberbiz ASI decided to conduct this investigation after receiving multiple alleg
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SA park closed due to outbreak of giant pine scale

18 September 2023
The City of Tea Tree Gully in South Australia has notified the public of a serious outbreak of giant pine scale that has forced the Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) to destroy hundreds of trees in Highbury and Hope Valley. Source: Yahoo News Locals have been told t
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Wollemi pine genome decoded

18 September 2023
The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct two million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it’s survived almost unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. Source: Live Science, photo C
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