KIPT one step closer to seaport after geotechnical tests
08 March 2018
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has access to the results of offshore geotechnical sampling at Smith Bay, the site of the proposed KI Seaport. Sources: Timberbiz, Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers Fourteen test sites were sampled in the area of the proposed berth face and berthing
Continue Reading →Removing logging won’t prevent Gita damage
08 March 2018
Tasman residents want stronger controls on forestry after logging waste and debris from collapsed pine forests swept around homes in Marahau and the Motueka Valley near Nelson when ex-tropical cyclone Gita hit two weeks ago. Source: Stuff NZ A petition signed by more than 3500 people
Continue Reading →Record logs go to China, with South Korea second for NZ
08 March 2018
New Zealand exported a record volume of logs to China last year as Asia’s largest economy clamped down on harvesting its own forests, and the future points to constant or better demand in coming months, according to AgriHQ’s latest forestry market report. Source: Share Cha
Continue Reading →High flying scientists testing trees
08 March 2018
Leading remote sensing scientists from Australia and New Zealand have been testing state-of-the-art sensor equipment mounted on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) prototypes and a helicopter in the Carabost State Forest, near Tumut. Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries The trans-Ta
Continue Reading →The elephant in the Tassie political room
08 March 2018
The contrast could hardly be greater. In 2014, as Will Hodgman returned the Liberal party to power in Tasmania after 16 years in the political wilderness, central to his pitch was a bold promise: he would tear up a forestry peace deal and immediately convene meetings to rebuild the in
Continue Reading →NZ expands restrictions on foreign investment in forestry
08 March 2018
New Zealand is to expand investment restrictions in the country’s lucrative forestry sector that would require foreign investors to gain regulatory approval before receiving the rights to harvest trees. Source: Reuters Associate Finance Minister David Parker said in an emailed stateme
Continue Reading →Wall of wood to travel by train
08 March 2018
Timber trains are expected to resume running by the end of this year on part of KiwiRail’s mothballed Napier – Gisborne line in the east of North Island, the operator announced on February 26. Source: The Railway Gazette The line has been out of use for the past six years, but KiwiRai
Continue Reading →OneFortyOne – no sawlog exports
08 March 2018
OneFortyOne Plantations has announced that as a result of strong domestic demand and the continued out-performance across the building industry, it has advised customers that there will be no sawlog exported from its estate for the next financial year. Source: Timberbiz OFO’s Chief E
Continue Reading →Entries open for NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards
08 March 2018
Entries are being accepted for the 2018 NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards, with Stage One entries closing at 5pm on Thursday 30 April. Source: Architecture Now These awards are the premier space for architects, engineers and others to profile their recent work with locally-sourced t
Continue Reading →Pine to native forestry regeneration in NZ
08 March 2018
The last pine trees have been felled in a major Hawkes Bay conservation project in New Zealand that aims to convert a 4000-hectare pine plantation back to regenerating native forest. Source: Timberbiz More than 3500 hectares of the Maungataniwha Pine Forest have now been logged since
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