The forest industry is heading towards remote felling of trees on steep slopes to improve safety and reduce costs, according to a forestry research expert. Source: Stuff.co.nz

Logging crews from outside Canterbury will help with the clean-up and wood recovery in forests left shattered in New Zealand from last week's wind storm. Source: Radio New Zealand

The Tasmanian Government has ordered an assessment of the size of Tasmania’s privately owned hardwood plantation estate. Source: ABC News

Strong international log demand will see City Forests owner the Dunedin City Council reap a record NZ$4.4 million dividend for the year to June. Source: Otage Daily Times

The kindest view you could have of the emissions trading scheme, what's left of it, is that it is a brutally pruned seedling barely surviving in frozen ground. Source: New Zealand Herald

Longford, Tasmania’s Graham Monson is one of the casualties of the Tasmanian forestry intergovernmental agreement. Source: The Examiner

Senator Colbeck was named Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and will assist the new Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce MP. Source: Timberbiz

There is more uncertainty over jobs in Tasmania's north-east after a local development group missed out on buying a former Gunns sawmill. Source: ABC News