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Sustainable Timber Tasmania FSC audit

17 August 2020
In 2019, Sustainable Timber Tasmania was one of the first organisations to undertake an audit against the new FSC National Forest Stewardship Standard of Australia. The audit recognised that Sustainable Timber Tasmania has a culture of innovation, adaptive management, and an ethos of
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SCT Logistics expands in Wodonga to move NSW burnt timber

17 August 2020
Wodonga-based national transport company SCT Logistics will transport millions of tonnes of plantation timber burnt in NSW during the summer bushfires that would otherwise go to waste, thanks to support from the Victorian Government.  Source: Timberbiz Minister for Regional Developmen
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How Victorian Stage 4 restrictions impact forestry and timber production

14 August 2020
Last week the Victorian State Government took the drastic measure of moving metropolitan Melbourne to Stage 4 restrictions and the rest of Victoria to Stage 3. To many members of the public, this might not seem to be a huge blow to the timber and forest industry, which at first glance
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VicForests postpones FSC certification due to multiple impediments

14 August 2020
VicForests has decided to postpone achieving the FSC Controlled Wood Standard by the end of 2020. This decision is based off multiple restrictions impeding completing the assessment. Source: Timberbiz These restrictions include: COVID-19 restrictions on international auditors which im
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Friday Analysis: COVID forces Greens change of tactics, but they’re still at it

14 August 2020
It’s an understatement to say that CoVid-19 has disrupted the entire world. No country is immune. It is of course virulent, disruptive, debilitating and deadly. It is also a distraction. Source: Bruce Mitchell Australia’s attention has been fixed on the daily press briefings detailing
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Opinion: Daryl Cochrane – The inconvenient facts of forestry

14 August 2020
Mark Twain said: “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has even gotten out of bed”. Rural Australians, the true conservationists, the providers of the necessities of life that live a life of integrity, are now under attack. Environmentalism, the planned and execu
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Australian softwood log exports explode in June

12 August 2020
Australia’s softwood log exports exploded to a new monthly record in June, with total exports reaching a massive 590,689m, up more than 83% on the prior month. To underscore the magnitude of the monthly record, this is more than 27% or 110,000 m higher than for any prior month. Source
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Sustainable Timber Tas Three Year Wood Production Plan

12 August 2020
Each year Sustainable Timber Tasmania prepares a Three Year Wood Production Plan to inform stakeholders of intended planned operations on Permanent Timber Production Zone land over the next three years, and also to guide Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s more detailed operational planning
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Big River builds bridges with councils

12 August 2020
The development of prefabricated engineered timber bridges by Big River Group, has provided a cost effective and timely solution to replacing bridges with minimal disruption to the local community. Source: Timberbiz Big River Group’s latest bridge replacement project at Cheviot Hills
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Projections of traded wood products report from ABARES

10 August 2020
A framework for developing medium term projections of traded wood products is a recent report released by ABARES that presents a proof of concept modelling exercise, reporting medium-term projections of the volume and value of trade in wood products based on a set of nested, historica
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