New Forestry Minister Peter Gutwein has confirmed he is exploring ways for the ailing Forestry Tasmania to offload functions to the private sector. Source: ABC News Visiting McKay Timber’s Bridgewater sawmill, the newly appointed minister provided an indication of his ideas for

The sawmills claim the long-awaited wall of wood from forests planted in the late ’80s and ’90s was mostly leaving the country as logs, and much of the land they came from was not being replanted. Source: Radio New Zealand Mark Hansen, the managing director of Rosvall’s sawmill

The Australian forestry industry will promote the use of biomass for energy production to diversify the sector and increase profitability. Source: ABC Rural Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston chaired the sixth annual Forest Industry Advisory Council mee

VicForests has been successfully re-certified to the Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management for the ninth year running. Source: Timberbiz Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) is a certification that provides consumers with assurance that the timber products they are buyin

At this year’s AUSTimber, ForestWorks will host a session about the opportunities for industry-led initiatives to manage safety issues facing the industry. Source: Timberbiz Speakers at this event are: Diana Lloyd from ForestWorks who will provide an update of the FOLS Skills Verifica

Hear about advanced solutions for structural timber production including glulam and CLT and other technology from Europe for structural timber production tonight in Melbourne. Source: Timberbiz The PrefabAUS Seminar Space will be the venue on 25 February for the event which will be at

Swiss researchers have come up with AI that lets small quadcopters automatically identify and follow man-made trails in forests. Source: Gizmodo They say it’s to help in search-and-rescue, but it also sounds like nanny state drones that could one day hunt me down in the woods as I dod

The grocery store parmesan cheese you shake over pasta dishes may contain non-dairy filler ingredients like wood pulp, according to a report from Bloomberg. Source: The Guardian UK In 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration investigated the Pennsylvania cheese factory Castle Cheese