Forestry Tasmania has contracted AKS Forest Solutions to selectively harvest a large area of native forest between Avoca and Bridport. Source: ABC Rural But far from clear-felling, the contractors will leave the very best trees to become top quality eucalypt sawlogs. About 1000 hectar
Logging in the state forests has cost NSW more than $43 million over the past three years – money that would be better spent promoting tourism in the regions, according to the Greens. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Each hectare felled costs taxpayers $495, with the losses in
A protester who locked herself onto logging machinery in a Western Australian forest for seven hours may be forced to pay thousands of dollars in compensation, police say. Source: ABC News Margaret River woman Mira Clohessy locked herself onto the equipment at Mowen Forest in the Sout
A high-level Coalition split over forest policy was resolved only after Tony Abbott overruled his Environment Minister and ignored departmental advice. Source: The Australian The Coalition went to the September 2013 election promising to rescind a swath of the recently extended Tasman
Phase three of the $27 million South East Forestry Partnerships Program, which supports the development of innovative new products and technologies, is now open. Source: Timberbiz The South Australian Government has committed $7.1 million to stimulate jobs and investment opportunities
ForestWorks 7th Annual Industry Development Conference: Innovation in Action’s program has been released. Source: Timberbiz The Conference is a leading networking and information sharing opportunity for the industry. Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture wil
With the theme: WOOD: housing, health, humanity. – Planet Ark and Wood Naturally Better (FWPA’s generic marketing consumer brand) are celebrating World Wood Day by building a nanoHouse in front of the Customs House at Sydney’s Circular Quay. Souce: Timberbiz Prefabricated and designed
Drones, laser scanners, planes and sharp shooters have been put to work in the Tasmanian forest to better understand the environmental effects of forest management regimes. Source: Timberbiz Researchers from The University of Queensland worked with CSIRO, Forestry Tasmania and the Uni
New Zealand’s largest sawmill, Rotorua’s Red Stag Timber, has announced a major new television program sponsorship, called The Red Stag Timber Hunters Club. Source: Rotorua Daily Post The 10 part series, to be broadcast on Sky Sport starting in April, travels the length an
An award-winning temporary house for disaster victims, designed by three Innovative Central Queensland University students, has withstood Tropical Cyclone Marcia. Sources: The Mornington Bulletin, Infolink Taking home the top prize at the 2014 The Big Idea competition, Angus Hughes, J