A final document has been prepared by John O’Donnell, titled “Potential opportunities and strategies for improved bushfire pine and hardwood plantation protection and management across Australia“, September 2020, following comments received on the document after an earlier article in July 2020. Source: Timberbiz
Mr O’Donnell is a former forester with the then NSW Forestry Commission.
After the large bushfires killing considerable areas of pine plantations in recent years, it is opportune to review potential protection arrangements inside and outside pine and hardwood plantations across Australia.
This document has been issued in order to aid progression of this important issue.
It is up to each pine plantation owner to develop opportunities and strategies to best protect plantations from bushfires and to best protect personnel involved in fighting bushfires within the pine plantations.
The document focusses on potential opportunities and strategies but doesn’t get into detail re specifics to any great degree, some of this is covered in some of the guideline documents listed in this document.
It is opportune to pull together information in earlier information/guideline documents and to review pine plantation fire salvage, to explore opportunities to maximise pine salvage, maximise timber value associated with fire salvage and possibly integrate pine plantation bushfire protection and salvage strategies.
A copy of this draft is included in this article, via a link. Pot opportunities for pltn prot Aust vs8 fin
