Activity in Tasmania’s plantation forestry sector is picking up after a deep and prolonged downturn. Tas Land and Forest managing director Kent Lyon said new markets for soft and hardwood timber were emerging. Source: ABC Rural “We’re very busy and markets are good,&

Britton Timbers has supplied the architectural timber used for the MPavilion, the annual architecture commission and design event in Melbourne. MPavilion partnered with Britton Timbers this year for the supply of timber for the project. Founded in 2014, MPavilion is an initiative of t

Two Marlborough sawmills are back in action following fires last month. A fuel bin caught fire at Timberlink New Zealand, off Battys Rd in Blenheim while three fire appliances were called to the Kaituna Sawmill on October 24. Source: Stuff.co.nz It took firefighters more than four hou

Scion, the forestry Crown research institute, will become the first organisation in New Zealand to fly drones beyond line of sight when it seeks approval under new Civil Aviation Authority rules to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for forest monitoring. Source: The National Busines

Indian sandalwood oil producer Tropical Forestry Services (TFS) is poised to break into new markets thanks to an expected 10-fold increase in the size of its next harvest. Source: ABC Rural The company, which has an Indian sandalwood plantation in Kununurra, in the far north of Wester

Trees from the nearby Wirrabara Forest Reserve and Bundaleer Forest Reserve – a combined 10,000 hectares of forest – are brought in to the Morgan Saw Mill in Jamestown every day to be fed through heavy circular saws, leaving behind a small mountain of wood chips. Source: A

Australia’s largest forest investment manager New Forests is investigating port development options at Ballast Head, near American River on Kangaroo Island, at a site formerly used for shipping gypsum and before that for loading ballast on to sailing ships. Source: Adelaide Now New Fo

A failure to implement effective erosion and sediment control measures at Tuckers Nob has resulted in Forestry Corporation of NSW being fined $15,000 by the NSW Environment Protection Authority. Sources: The Coffs Coast Advocate, ABC News From September to November last year, FCNSW un