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Leading industry print magazines now online

Following 21 years as the major Australian forests and timber industry magazine and in line with current publishing trends, Australian Forests & Timber News is now available in both print and online on the forest and timber industries’ leading web portal, www.timberbiz.com.au.
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Important meeting for ATDG members

The Australasian Timber Drying Group (ATDG) will hold its next meeting at The Downtowner, 66 Lygon Street, Carlton, from 9.30am on 20 February.
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Hoo Hoo Club AGM

Sydney Hoo Hoo Club 215, will hold its annual general meeting at Heritage Profiles, 7 Kerr Road, Ingleburn, from 7pm on 22 February.
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Weekend programs teach forest facts to families

Forests NSW has launched a new program of weekend and school holiday activities at Cumberland State Forest at West Pennant Hills to encourage people to learn more about forests. Activities will be run in school holidays and every Sunday morning.
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Sandalwood plantations on the rise

TFS Corporation Ltd has entered into a contract to buy another property as it attempts to expand its Sandalwood plantations.
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Online education and training can change the game for wood products industry

Associate Professor Greg Nolan, Director of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW), predicts that online education and training can change the game for the Australian and New Zealand timber and wood products industry.
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Space scientist to speak at timber conference

An internationally renowned, award winning space scientist will be speaking at the AUSTimber 2012 Forestworks’ conference in Mount Gambier, 29 March 2012.
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Tasmanian Premier taken to task over ‘lack of action’

Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has been taken to task for her seeming lack of action over attacks on Ta Ann.
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Forestry saga drags on

By Senator Richard Colbeck When is enough enough? An Interim Conservation Agreement was signed last month between the State and Commonwealth Governments and didn't it produce a commotion!
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Forestry Tasmania would prefer to be developing new value added opportunities

By Bob Gordon Managing Director, Forestry Tasmania I note the Tasmanian Government's decision to release the first stage of the Strategic Review of Forestry Tasmania by consultants URS. Given that the timber industry in Tasmania is in the grip of a crisis, solutions can only be foun
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