Forestry: a climate of change is the theme for the Institute of Foresters of Australia Conference at The Events Centre, Caloundra, Queensland, from 6-10 September, 2009.

Numerous small fires have occurred of late in the Murray/Murrumbidgee region, and Forests NSW is concerned that some campers may not be paying attention to the Solid Fuel Fire Ban, that is now in place.

TASMANIA is set to benefit from the first formal sister forestry park relationship between Australia and China, following the signing of an historic agreement between Forestry Tasmania’s Tahune AirWalk and the Qiandao Lake Park at Hangzhou owned by China International Forest Travel.

LASER APPLICATIONS for forest management was the focus of the SilviLaser 2008 Conference at Edinburgh’s Heriot -Watt University.

THE LATEST scientific report on the health of south-east Queensland’s waterways and catchments provides much support for plantation forest management in the region, according to Forestry Plantations Queensland’s Beerburrum Forest manager Stan Ward.

The Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) has sought Government action over the current critical situation of the streams and forests in WA, and says that adaptive management is really the only sensible option available. The institute spelled out its concerns in a letter to the W

Local university student Lauren Pittard-Robb has been awarded the Institute of Foresters of Australia 2008 scholarship. She is studying forestry through Southern Cross University in Mount Gambier.

PORTLAND, Maine: A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of the idle Old Town pulp and paper mill to a New York investment group for nearly $19 million. Patriarch Partners plans to reopen the Red Shield Environmental mill Patriarch provided no timetable but said it hopes to