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• Jim Anderton’s legacy contribution to forest industry
  January, 2018
  The Forest Owners Association is paying tribute to Jim Anderton for his contribution to the forest industry. President Peter Clark says Jim Anderton had a keen eye for the significance…
• Crown Forestry a good start to get to one billion tree target
  December, 2017
  The Forest Owners Association says a just announced new government mandate for Crown Forestry is the best way to start reaching the government’s goal of seeing a billion trees planted…
• Forest Owners highlight biosecurity risks as good reason to keep forestry under MPI
  December, 2017
  The Forest Owners Association believes the government appears to have got the balance right in creating a separate Forestry New Zealand, but keeping it as part of the Ministry for…
• Government recognises forestland and farmland different cases for overseas investment
  November, 2017
  The Forest Owners Association says the government would be jeopardising its billion-tree target if it hadn’t separated forest and farmland in its ministerial directive to the Overseas Investment Office. The…
• Farm Foresters says foresters should check all selling options for best returns
  November, 2017
  New Zealand Farm Forestry Association President Neil Cullen recommends small-scale forest owners check what offers might be available from local timber processors when they go to sell their woodlots. NZFFA,…
• Report: Towards Commercialising Cypress as a High-Value Plantation Forest Species
  November, 2017
  The NZ Farm Forestry Association, with support from the MPI Sustainable Farming Fund, have completed a report looking at the commercial potential for cypress as a plantation forest crop in New…
• NZFFA welcomes new Government
  October, 2017
  The New Zealand Farm Forestry Association welcomes the Labour/NZFirst/Greens coalition government and their commitment to plant 1 billion trees over the next ten years. We also welcome their plans to…
• Valuable years lost for forestry means unified approach needed
  October, 2017
  The Forest Owners Association says the priority put on new forest plantings by New Zealand First entering the coalition presents an enormous challenge to the new government and industry alike.…
• Questions for politicians during the lead up to the 2017 General Election
  September, 2017
  The aim of this article is not to recommend which party to vote for, but to arm readers with ideas to underpin questions relating to forestry that they may like…
• Post-election government must put greater focus on forestry
  August, 2017
  The forest industry says the government after the election needs to put a much greater focus on forestry and suggestions just made by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters lead…
• Rural Fire Control Charter signed
  August, 2017
  FOA and FFA have signed a Charter with Fire and Emergency New Zealand, to cover the period between the disestablishment of the Rural Fire Services and the fully integrated urban…
• Including Forestry in an Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from New Zealand
  August, 2017
  New Zealand is the first, and still the only, country to include forest landowners as full and, in some cases, mandatory participants in a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme…
• Quality Assurance of NZ Wood Products Moves to New Level
  August, 2017
  New Zealand wood products already undergo strict and independent, third-party scrutiny to ensure that they comply with the NZ Building Code.  All NZ wood products are made to standards and…
• New national standard for plantation forestry
  August, 2017
  A new nationwide set of environmental rules for managing New Zealand’s 1.7 million hectares of plantation forestry will better protect the environment and deliver significant savings in compliance costs, Minister…
• National Environmental Standard a step up and forward for plantation forestry
  August, 2017
  Forest Owners say the introduction of a National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry is vitally needed for better environmental outcomes. The government has just released the NES, to bring in…
• Emission Trading Scheme Imbalance Will Cost New Zealanders.
  August, 2017
  Recent updates to the Government’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) are a mixed bag according to sources in the New Zealand Forestry industry. Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett announced a raft…
• Biosecurity: Obtaining social licence to operate case study – gypsy moth eradication programme, British Columbia, Canada
  July, 2017
  Executive summary The purpose of this report is to present findings from a biosecurity visit to British Columbia, Canada in May 2017 by a delegation consisting of industry, government, and…
• ETS review may reduce forest planting while foresters wait for certainty
  July, 2017
  Forest owners and wood processors say they appreciate the government needs to fine tune the Emissions Trading Scheme, but they believe present uncertainty in the ETS might lead to a…
• Wilding conifer work plan announced
  July, 2017
  Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and Conservation Minister Maggie Barry have announced the Government will control the spread of wilding conifers over an additional five priority areas this year in…
• Biosecurity Levy: Consultation
  July, 2017
  Consultation with the New Zealand Plantation Forest industry has begun on the proposal for a Biosecurity Levy to allow the sector to meet the response costs of a biological incursion under…
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