Acacia Melanoxylon Interest Group Organisation

Brings together members interested in growing Tasmanian Blackwood - professional forest researchers, timber marketers and commercial users in an information sharing network aimed at creating a sustainable NZ resource of plantation grown quality hardwood.

Blackwood Handbook

Best Practice with Farm Forestry Timber Species
No. 4: BLACKWOODS
Ian Nicholas

[1.7 Mb]	Introduction and Chapter 1: Species recognition, history and habitat
[346 Kb]	Chapter 2: Timber properties, market and resource
[336 Kb]	Chapter 3: Site requirements and land use
[262 Kb]	Chapter 4: Agroforestry
[492 Kb]	Chapter 5: Seed, genetics and clonal propogation
[170 Kb]	Chapter 6: Seedling production, establishment and nutrition
[267 Kb]	Chapter 7: Health
[643 Kb]	Chapter 8: Management options
[911 Kb]	Chapter 9: Growth, habitat and malformation
[1.0 Mb]	Chapter 10: Pruning and thinning
[352 Kb]	Chapter 11: Growth model, yields, suggested regime
[271 Kb]	Chapter 12: Economic analyses
[167 Kb]	Chapter 13: Utilisation
[595 Kb]	Chapter 14: Case studies
[456 Kb]	Chapter 15: Summary
[139 Kb]	Chapter 16 References, other information sources and glossary of terms