More than 500 pine trees, which formed an unusual urban forest in the corner of a Caringbah industrial site, were cut down this week. Source: St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

The Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) is looking positively towards the possibility of holding the next AusTimber Expo in 2016. Source: Timberbiz

Liberal, National and Labor parliamentarians, including all Gippsland MPs, united last week to back Victoria's timber industry. Source: The Gippsland Times

Forest Management company SFM Forest Products announced that it has completed contract negotiations to manage the Portland Treefarm Project in the Green Triangle. Source: Timberbiz

Opening 1.2 million hectares of native Queensland forests for the timber industry would not lead to mass logging operations according to Timber Queensland chief executive Rod McInnes. Source: Sunshine Coast Daily

Next month, a federal court judge will try to put a value on something that’s somewhat priceless, trees stolen from the Olympic National Forest in the US. Source: Seattle Times

In Oslo, Norway a TV program aired on the topic of firewood, it consisted mostly of people in parkas chatting and chopping and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace. Sources: The Age, The New York Times

Labour leader David Shearer unveiled his new shadow-Cabinet lineup at a press conference. Source: 3News