It’s time for Tumbarumba community groups to start formalising their project details with the Hyne Community Trust calling for applications from June 2018 for projects valued over $10,000. Source: Timberbiz The Hyne Community Trust has been supporting community projects since 20

1,009,223m3 – exports of softwood logs for the March quarter of 2018, a rise of 5.2% on March quarter 2017 275m3 – Australia’s dressed sawn softwood exports in the March Quarter of 2018 were almost too small to notice $112,952,000 – the value of Australia’s imports of dressed sawn sof

Sidney Gendron runs Sawmill Sid, a family-run sawmill that collects felled and diseased trees at its Tree and Wood Recovery Centre in Mississaug, Canada. Source: CBC Canada Once processed, downed trees can be repurposed as furniture, art pieces or materials for housing and constructio

A court in eastern Poland has acquitted environmentalists who had blocked government-ordered logging in one of Europe’s last pristine forests that has been condemned by the European Union. Source: ABC News Last June, the activists chained themselves to heavy equipment, thus bloc

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange futures contract for the softwood two-by-fours used in framing houses closed at its highest price ever. Source: Justin Fox for Bloomberg If one adjusts for inflation, current prices are no longer record-setting. But an interesting pattern does appear if

New Zealand Forestry Minister Shane Jones announced the formation of a new ministerial advisory group to provide independent advice about the forestry sector and how government and industry can work together to deliver outcomes for New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz The Forestry Ministeri

A Spot-tailed quoll was recently sighted in the Erica State Forest. Spot-tailed quolls are rare; they are listed as Threatened under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 and Vulnerable under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC). Sourc

A Masters of Architecture student from the University of Queensland has received Timber Queensland’s newly-minted SmartTimber Awards. Source: Timberbiz Revealed at Timber Queensland’s Doing Timber Business in Queensland: Room to Grow conference held in Brisbane, Peter Gree