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Tas government to assess hardwood plantations

The Tasmanian Government has ordered an assessment of the size of Tasmania’s privately owned hardwood plantation estate. Source: ABC News
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City Forests reaps record dividend

Strong international log demand will see City Forests owner the Dunedin City Council reap a record NZ$4.4 million dividend for the year to June. Source: Otage Daily Times
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NZ’s emission trading scheme update

The kindest view you could have of the emissions trading scheme, what's left of it, is that it is a brutally pruned seedling barely surviving in frozen ground. Source: New Zealand Herald
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Home truths from Tassie sawmiller

Longford, Tasmania’s Graham Monson is one of the casualties of the Tasmanian forestry intergovernmental agreement. Source: The Examiner
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Colbeck gets his dream job

Senator Colbeck was named Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and will assist the new Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce MP. Source: Timberbiz
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Local bid for Gunns sawmill fails

There is more uncertainty over jobs in Tasmania's north-east after a local development group missed out on buying a former Gunns sawmill. Source: ABC News
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US timber sold to pay for health care

Older mid-Willamette Valley landowners in the US who have to sell timber from their forest lands to pay for health care could get an alternative. Source: The Seattle Times
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China’s next biomass plant underway

China Chant Group is developing a new biomass-fired power plant in China's Shandong province. Source: Bioenergy Insight
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DANA timberlands conference

It is only one month until the DANA London International Timberlands Investment Conference on 10 & 11 October. Source: Timberbiz
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Whishful thinking

Claims that the federal election result in Tasmania had been a referendum on forestry were “total crap” according to Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson. Source: The Examiner
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