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Climate change is killing the world’s oldest trees

13 December 2012
Colorado’s old lodgepoles aren’t the only forest giants that are dying. Around the world, the biggest, oldest trees that harbor and sustain countless birds and other wildlife are meeting the same fate. Source: Think Progress
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Forests NSW increases fire fighters

13 December 2012
Forests NSW has employed seven temporary fire fighters to help protect the State’s valuable pine plantations and surrounding communities in the Bombala region. Source: Timberbiz
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Logging protest in Victoria stymied

13 December 2012
The police search and rescue crew was brought in from Melbourne yesterday to break up a logging protest near the Bendoc River in East Gippsland. Source: ABC News
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New Zealander fined for milling indigenous timber

13 December 2012
In New Zealand a Whakatane man has been fined NZ$15,000 plus a further NZ$15,000 in reparation to the Ministry for Primary Industries for milling indigenous timber. Source: Timberbiz
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Yarra Ranges not in the Wilderness

13 December 2012
In a stunning reversal of policy the new Yarra Ranges Council dumped its direct involvement with the Wilderness Society's "Ethical Paper Pledge.” Source: Timberbiz
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That’s crate work

13 December 2012
Create from a Crate, an innovative competition that challenges artists, furniture designers and woodworkers to create a masterpiece from an old packaging crate, is on again. Source: Timberbiz
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Funding shortfall of $90m

13 December 2012
The funding announced by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke is at best $90 million short of the ask by signatories to the so-called forestry peace deal according to Senator Richard Colbeck. Sources: Timberbiz, ABC News
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Swedish sawmills close as outlook grim

11 December 2012
SCA Timber is to close two of its seven sawmills with the loss of 98 jobs citing the worst economic conditions for Swedish sawmilling in 40 years. Source: TTJ Online
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Go to Canada for timber jobs

11 December 2012
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has welcomed an announcement by the Minister of Citizen, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, concerning a new Federal Skilled Trades Program to help address labour shortages in skilled trades. Source: The Sacramento Bee
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Housing finance update

11 December 2012
ABS Housing Finance flat-lined in October 2012, providing little additional insight into the prospects for a sustainable recovery in new home building in 2013 according to the Housing Industry Association. Source: Timberbiz
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