Ricky Muir joins Shooter, Fishers and Farmers party
13 July 2017
Ricky Muir appears set to run for a seat in the Victorian parliament. The former Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party senator, who now runs a small sawmill in Gippsland, has announced he is joining the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party. Source: The Yass Tribune “Leaving the Se
Continue Reading →Leadbeaters to wipe $15m from the timber industry
13 July 2017
Exclusion zones to protect Victoria’s tiny emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum, have reduced the animal’s risk of extinction but will wipe nearly $15 million from the timber industry. Source: News.com.au There are now 436 possum colonies protected in state forest by timb
Continue Reading →City electorate can decide on forestry
13 July 2017
High-profile state government MP Jane Garrett faces a backlash at next year’s Victorian election over one of Labor’s most challenging issues: logging in native forests. Source: The Age New polling in Ms Garrett’s inner-city seat of Brunswick suggests almost half her
Continue Reading →Radial sawing a commercial reality
13 July 2017
The deafening din is the same as any sawmill, but the timber rolling off the conveyor belt is far from conventional. It has been radially sawn, a milling technique that delivers some enormous advantages over existing methods. Source: ABC News “Basically we cut up timber differen
Continue Reading →Neville Smith fire deliberate
13 July 2017
A fire that caused $800,000 damage at the Neville Smith Forest Products operation in Tasmania was deliberately lit, police say. Source: ABC News The Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) received multiple triple-0 calls about 10:00pm on Tuesday and went to the Remount Road property in Mowbray t
Continue Reading →North Korea launches missile from timber truck
05 July 2017
North Korea appeared to use a Chinese truck originally sold for hauling timber to transport and erect a ballistic missile that was successfully launched on Tuesday, highlighting the challenge of enforcing sanctions to curb its weapons program. Source: Japan Times North Korea state tel
Continue Reading →Recognising tree species via laser scanning
05 July 2017
A joint research project by Tampere University of Technology’s mathematics laboratory and the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) has developed a new method of recognising tree species based on laser scanning measurements. Source: Luke The method enables the calculation of clas
Continue Reading →China’s forestry trade volume increased
05 July 2017
China’s forestry trade volume reached US$70.97 billion in the first half of this year, up 10.8% year on year, official data showed. Source: China Daily Total value of the forestry sector’s output reached 2.77 trillion yuan, up 7.4% year on year, according to the State Fore
Continue Reading →AFCA Green Triangle meeting
05 July 2017
Australian Forest Contractor’s Australia (AFCA) Green Triangle regional meeting and forest owners and service providers – uniform safety audit launch will be held today. Source: Timberbiz This AFCA regional meeting will provide an update on: the Log Haulage Registered Code of Pr
Continue Reading →Scholarship for Fire Performance of Floor Timber Systems
05 July 2017
The School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) is offering a PhD scholarship for a motivated student to contribute to research being undertaken within the Centre for Future Timber Structures and the Fire Safety Engineering Research Group. Source:
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