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WA thinning program may increase water and resilience

16 July 2019
An experimental thinning program at Yarragil forest block in Western Australia is investigating the potential of silviculture to increase water availability and the resilience of forests to a drying climate. Source: Timberbiz Forest Products Commission Director Operations Gavin Butche
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Private Forests Tas hosts event to show market opportunities

16 July 2019
Private Forests Tasmania (PFT) recently held an event to discuss market opportunities for the northern Tasmania private forests sector with attendees from timber processors, forestry companies, general foresters, farmers and politicians. Source: Timberbiz Penny Wells, PFT’s CEO, opene
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Almost 500,000 pine seedlings for Mount Lofty plantation estate

16 July 2019
ForestrySA is planting 480,000 pine seedlings across its Mount Lofty Ranges plantation estate this winter as part of its 2019 plantation reestablishment program. More than 320 hectares of recently harvested pine plantation will be planted by mid-August across nine sites within the Kui
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Facts and Figures on New Zealand plantation forestry

16 July 2019
Each year, the New Zealand Forest Owners Association (NZFOA), in conjunction with the Ministry for Primary Industries, publishes an informative overview of the performance of the New Zealand Plantation Forest Industry, called Facts & Figures. The 2017/2018 edition is now available
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Queensland’s industry Big Day Out for the timber industry

16 July 2019
An industry Big Day Out to promote the critical aspects of the hardwood timber industry and its impacts on income and livelihood to a raft of families across rural southern Queensland has been planned for Maryborough in August. Source: Timberbiz The Queensland Hardwood Timber Industry
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Call to broaden new laws protecting against activists

16 July 2019
Proposed new laws to protect farmers and primary producers, including forest industries from activists should be broadened to include necessary protections for processors of forest products according to the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) and the Australian Forest Contra
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NSW Nationals want to return to harvesting Riverina Red Gum

16 July 2019
The New South Wales Deputy Premier, John Barilaro, has vowed to return some of the reserved Red Gum forests in the Riverina back into commercial timber harvesting. In an address to the NSW Nationals’ state conference last month, Mr Barilaro, who is NSW Nationals leader, made a commitm
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Testing the water to shut town native timber in Victoria

11 July 2019
A market research company is visiting country towns in Victoria to test the water on the public’s reaction to shutting down the native timber industry. The most recent of several events was in Maryborough on Wednesday night. Others are understood to have taken place in Shepparton and
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Generous rural leadership program scholarships open

11 July 2019
Applications have opened for $55,000 scholarships with the Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP) to join Course 27. Matt Linnegar, chief executive of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation said the ARLP is a 15-month leadership development program that takes place over five s
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Woody mammoth construction for dinosaurs

11 July 2019
The Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum aspires to become an internationally significant centre of paleontology Alberta, Canada but it has also broken new ground in timber construction for its architects Teeple Architects of Toronto. This 29,200 square foot museum rests on an ancient Pipe
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