Colorado’s old lodgepoles aren’t the only forest giants that are dying. Around the world, the biggest, oldest trees that harbor and sustain countless birds and other wildlife are meeting the same fate. Source: Think Progress
Forests NSW has employed seven temporary fire fighters to help protect the State’s valuable pine plantations and surrounding communities in the Bombala region. Source: Timberbiz
The police search and rescue crew was brought in from Melbourne yesterday to break up a logging protest near the Bendoc River in East Gippsland. Source: ABC News
In New Zealand a Whakatane man has been fined NZ$15,000 plus a further NZ$15,000 in reparation to the Ministry for Primary Industries for milling indigenous timber. Source: Timberbiz
In a stunning reversal of policy the new Yarra Ranges Council dumped its direct involvement with the Wilderness Society's "Ethical Paper Pledge.” Source: Timberbiz
Create from a Crate, an innovative competition that challenges artists, furniture designers and woodworkers to create a masterpiece from an old packaging crate, is on again. Source: Timberbiz
The funding announced by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke is at best $90 million short of the ask by signatories to the so-called forestry peace deal according to Senator Richard Colbeck. Sources: Timberbiz, ABC News
SCA Timber is to close two of its seven sawmills with the loss of 98 jobs citing the worst economic conditions for Swedish sawmilling in 40 years. Source: TTJ Online
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