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New Zealand Tree Grower Magazine, May 2016
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Scion Rural Fire Research Group – Understanding extreme fire behaviour (Access: unrestricted)
Richard Parker, Veronica Clifford, Tara Strand, Grant Pearce & Lisa Langer
The Scion Rural Fire Research Group is New Zealand’s only provider of specialist fire research expertise in forest and rural landscapes.We develop science and technology to protect life and property,… -
The Forest Industry Safety Council What is it up to? (Access: unrestricted)
Ian Jackson
On March 16 at the Forestwood conference in Auckland, on behalf of NZFFA, I signed the charter for the Forest Industry Safety Council. This was signed on behalf of the… -
We need intensively managed plantations (Access: unrestricted)
Wink Sutton
Wood is the world’s only environmentally friendly and sustainable raw material. There are current global proposals for a significant increase in wood use such as in the manufacture of biofuels and… -
President's Comment (Access: unrestricted)
Dean Satchell
April saw a great turnout for our annual conference with the weather gods looking down kindly upon us. Warm sunny weather throughout the whole conference added to the pleasure of… -
Husqvarna South Island Farm Foresters of the Year 2016 - Bevan Walker and Nora Flight (Access: unrestricted)
Hidden away in a little offshoot of the Wai-iti Valley about 30 km south west of Richmond is an arboreal gem which includes in its 71 hectares more than 40… -
Husqvarna North Island Farm Foresters of the Year 2016 - John and Christine Pedersen (Access: unrestricted)
John and Christine Pedersen live and work on a 232 hectare farm at Parakao, west of Whangarei. The area is typical of much of the northland landscape with pockets of… -
Landcare Trust Award for Innovation in Sustainable Farm Forestry 2016 - David and Helen Vollweiler (Access: unrestricted)
For David and Helen Vollweiler, running their 860 hectare property in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner has long been a key component of their management practice. In 2009 they… -
Stop bugging me: Giving eucalypt pests the push (Access: unrestricted)
Stephanie Sopow, Toni Withers, Lindsay Bulman and Michelle Harnett
Nibbling, noshing, chewing, sucking − Australia’s vast variety of eucalypts are fodder for a wide range of insect pests. With trade and weather patterns, many have made their way from… -
Options for changing the Cost of Standing Timber provisions (Access: unrestricted)
Howard Moore
Sections of the Income Tax Act 2007 behave as a barrier to the aggregation of small forests. Aggregation would allow coordinated harvesting, continuity of supply and economies of scale, all… -
Profit from a small plantation at Melrose (Access: unrestricted)
Nick Ledgard
In the November 2015 North Canterbury newsletter, after the last field-day at a property with a number of small blocks of mixed species, I wrote rather somberly about the economics… -
Liability for forest owners - Cannot see the wood for the trees? (Access: unrestricted)
Jo McIntosh
It seems that New Zealand’s business environment is getting more difficult and all business owners, including forest owners, are exposed to an increasingly complex myriad of liability risks. So how… -
Will forestry be a winner from the Emissions Trading Scheme Review? (Access: unrestricted)
Hamish Levack
The Ministry for the Environment admitted recently that, since the Emissions Trading Scheme was set up in 2008, it has made practically no difference to business investment decisions. It has… -
Do we want carbon credits from harvested wood products? (Access: unrestricted)
Howard Moore
Those of you who have stumbled across Lærdal in Norway, as you do, might have looked in some wonder at the Borgund stave church. It is a startling building, especially… -
Woodside – a small forest managed on multiple use principles (Access: unrestricted)
John Wardle has at last published the information many of us have been waiting for in his new book Woodside – a small forest managed on multiple use principles. John… -
Richard Davies-Colley remembered (Access: unrestricted)
Compiled by Peter Davies-Colley, Wilma Davies-Colley and Mike Smith
Richard Davies-Colley died a few weeks after the 2015 conference in Whangarei. He and his wife Wilma took over the registration process for this conference at short notice and helped…