If Oregon startup DroneSeed has its way, foresters in the Pacific Northwest may be in for a surprise the next time they are out in the field. Instead of wandering into a team of people working to replant trees, they could be bombarded from above by a suite of seed-blasting drones depl

Summit Forests New Zealand Limited has selected Trimble’s Land Resource Manager (LRM) solution to enhance its operational flexibility and support process reengineering. Source: Lesprom Summit plans to streamline both spatial and attribute business processes with Trimble’s

CSIRO, ANU and Western Sydney University is running a symposium about forest industry preparedness for climate change: opportunities from genetics and genomics. Source: Timberbiz This is being held under the auspices of the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) project ‘Forests f

A new EY research report titled Megatrends and the Australian Forest and Wood Product Sector was launched at FRAME 2016. Source: Timberbiz Launched on 23 May by Senator the Hon Anne Ruston, this is an analysis by the global consultancy EY, that shows that the Australian forest and woo

An ambitious tree planting program has begun on the Monaro in southern New South Wales to counter the effect of an extremely large tree dieback episode in the region. Source: ABC News Dieback has killed the native eucalypt species, leaving the hills south of Cooma scarred with the rem

Lumbercube timber mill in Rotorua, New Zealand, which produces square logs will shut putting about 80 jobs at risk. Source: Stuff NZ The mill, which is owned by Pedersen Group, was established in 2014. The business was opened with the intention to add value the export log market and m

The viability of Victoria’s government-owned native forestry business has been thrown into doubt by a high-level analysis concluding it takes more than $5 million of investment in roads, machinery and equipment to create a single timber job. Source: The Age A confidential report

The value of the Whanganui District Council forestry portfolio, coupled with its carbon credits, could reap a harvest of more than $10 million. Source: The New Zealand Herald The council’s joint forestry committee will meet with both the sale of about 1000ha of its plantations a