Farm Forestry New Zealand
Official website of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association
Silviculture and forest management
- Will Hull’s contribution to radiata pine plantation management
Wink Sutton, November 2012
Farm forestry has made a considerable contribution to forestry research. When he was alive our founder, Neil Barr, contributed much. Another important contributor was Wairarapa’s Will Hull. To fully appreciate…
- Lincoln University agroforestry experiment findings
Don Mead and Dick Lucas, February 2008
Since the Lincoln University agroforestry experiment was established in 1990, over 30 scientific papers have been published. However, as most of these have been in overseas journals where they are…
- Wide planting does not work
Ken Jones and Neil Cullen, February 2008
In the 1980s the wide spacing of radiata pine was a popular strategy with farm foresters. The advocates of this system believed that the reduced establishment and tending costs and…
- Plantation silviculture at the crossroads
Euan Mason, May 2007
What do you think of New Zealand? The classic question reputedly asked of so many visitors has provoked a variety of answers. John Lennon replied that after 10 minutes on…
- Coast redwood silviculture in New Zealand
Mark Dean, February 2007
Californian coastal redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, has proved to grow well in New Zealand when correct siting and establishment practices are attended to. On good quality sites – warm, sheltered and with…
- Pruning and thinning eucalyptus - Stringybark eucalypt silviculture
Dean Satchell, November 2006
Equipped with a harness, pole-pruner and ladder Silviculture of eucalypts for solid-timber requires some understanding of the tree and the timber. That is, a level of skill and knowledge guiding…
- Pruning young poplars
Sarah Hurst, Ian McIvor, Carlo van den Dijssel, Steve Green, Lindsay Fung, Grant Douglas and Lex Foote, May 2006
Since the 1950s over six million poplars have been planted throughout New Zealand. Planting reached a peak during the 1970s in response to government incentives for soil conservation. Unfortunately many…
- Tools for pruning radiata pine
Chris Meads – Levin Sawmakers, August 2005
If you have decided to prune, then use the right pruning equipment. The two most common methods of pruning are with manual loppers and saws, or a petrol-driven top-handled chainsaw.…
- Ringbarking as a method for thinning trees: Dean Satchell's blog, April 13, 2018
Radiata pine, because of a long history of genetic improvement, is often planted at stockings of less then 1000 stems per hectare. Douglas fir, on the other hand, is often…
- Thoughts on silviculture: John Purey-Cust Ponders, June 12, 2014
My last effort was on the vexed question of whether or not to prune and thin radiata pine. There I think I concluded helpfully that in the end its over…
- The everlasting argument: John Purey-Cust Ponders, March 06, 2014
The everlasting argument, whether to prune or not to prune , depends on you. No one who gives you advice knows any better than you, whatever their experience. They can…
- Model to predict the effects of pruning and early thinning on the growth of radiata pine
FRI Bulletin No. 5, West, G. G., R. L. Knowles and A. R. Koehler (1982).
- New approaches to spacing and thinning in plantation forestry. Proceedings of a IUFRO symposium held at the Forest Research Institute, Rotorua, New Zealand, 10-14 April, 1989
FRI Bulletin No. 151, James, R. N. and G. L. Tarlton (1989).
- Pruned stand certification: A manual of procedures
FRI Bulletin No. 167, Somerville, A. (1995).
- Silvicultural Systems
Matthews, J. D. (1991). Silvicultural Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Standard text on silivcultural systems from clearcut to selection and including coppice and agroforestry.
- The Practice of Silviculture: Applied forest ecology
Smith, D. M., Larson, B. C., Kelty, J., Mark, P., & Ashton, S. (1997 ). The Practice of Silviculture: Applied forest ecology (9 ed.). USA: John Wiley and Sons.
Classic American forestry textbook for those interested in applying ecological principles to managing trees
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