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Sister park agreement to benefit State

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.
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Laser points the way to new forest management

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

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.
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Adaptive management is only sensible option available

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
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Foresters’ scholarship a first class option

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.
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Bankruptcy could bring a new beginning

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
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Time for the Government to invest in forestry

IT’S TIME for the Australian Government to invest in forest industry infrastructure The National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) is calling on the Federal Government to urgently provide forest industry-related infrastructure to secure the economic and social future of rural a
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Market falls but hopefully short-lived, says economist

A recession in Australia has become more likely but it should be over relatively quickly according to leading economists. Respected BT Chief Economist Chris Caton indicated that the chances of a recession had clearly increased as the global financial crisis deepened. But he predicted
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Joint effort gives forest growers greater scope

TreeSmart has teamed with Australian Forest Growers to introduce a new AFG-TreeSmart program.
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Forestry investment bucking the trend

Many leading personal finance blogs in Europe and the US have been buzzing with discussion centred on the question of what are the best alternative investments in the current climate. Why are timber and forestry investments cropping up so often?
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