Plans to make Hobart’s Macquarie Wharf the export base for woodchips in the state’s south have been called “ludicrous”, “alien” and a step backward for tourism and Hobart’s cultural image. Source: Yahoo 7 News Tasmanian Resources Minister Paul

There are concerns forest contractors will soon be imported from New Zealand or interstate to meet the demands of Tasmania’s plantation industry. Source: ABC News Hundreds of thousands of hectares of hardwood plantations are about to come online for harvesting, but the industry

A South Australian community has packed a local meeting to keep up the pressure on the State Government over the future of its local forestry industry following devastating bushfires. Source: ABC News Forests Minister Leon Bignell travelled to Jamestown in the mid north of the state t

Building activity figures released by the ABS show that the home building recovery has brought activity to its highest in 20 years, said the Housing Industry Association (HIA). Source: Timberbiz “The fact that new home building has reached a 20-year high is very welcome,” said HIA Sen

President Obama has declared this week National Forest Products Week, which is a great tribute to the more than 900,000 Americans who work in the US forest products industry. Source: The Hill As members representing nearly 87,000 of these hard-working men and women, we understand more

Increased North American log exports and higher softwood lumber production in the US and Canada have resulted in a steady rise in timber harvests on the continent from 2009 to 2013, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Source: Wood Resources International However, despite the rec

We can blame man for the altered composition of Eastern forests, but not climate change, according to a researcher in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. Source: Science 20 Forests in the Eastern United States remain in a state of “disequilibrium” stemming

Researchers have created a global map of the world's forests in the year 1990, enabling accurate comparisons between past and current deforestation rates. The GIS data underpinning the map is available at LandCover.org Source: Mongabay