Representatives from Ceduna, Streaky Bay and Wudinna councils in Western Australia were on hand last Friday for a demonstration of the benefits of a new horizontal grinder which was purchased by Ceduna Recycling. Source: West Coast Sentinel A $110,000 grant received earlier this year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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