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The 8th ANZIF Conference “Beyond Tenure: Managing forests across the landscape will cover all aspects of modern Australasian forest management. Source: Timberbiz

Professor Ross Garnaut will set the scene in a keynote address on population and development in a changing world.

Australian Government Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, The Honorable Richard Colbeck, Senator for Tasmania, will open the conference which will be held from April 13 to 15 at the Novotel Forest Resort in Creswick, Victoria.

Major program sessions will focus on commercial forestry, forest fire management, conserving forest biodiversity across the landscape, urban forestry and forest certification.

Integrating forests and agricultural production and forest assessment and sustainable forest management are also key topics.

International forestry is the focus of a session by Tony Bartlett from ACIAR and led by international forester, Dr Don Gilmour.

A session on indigenous land management will include presentations from Cape York, the Tiwi Islands and the Iwi community, Aotearoa.

Professor Kerry Arabena will speak on the future of forest management from an Australian indigenous leaders perspective.

Dr Tint Lwin Thaung will cover developments in forest management in the Asia Pacific region and former US Forest Service Fire Chief Jerry Williams will address the topic of megafires and the preservation paradox.

Professor Andrew Campbell from Charles Darwin University and International Forestry Student Association representative, Sarah Dickson-Hoyle will wrap up the conference with their views on the future of the forestry profession and forest management.

Other program highlights include Professor Eric Hansen from Oregon State University on innovation in forest products, Professor Harry Nelson from the University of British Columbia on translating climate futures into forest management and Hilton Taylor from the Australian Government Department of the Environment on the prospects for forestry under the Emissions Reduction Fund.

More information can be found at www.forestryconference.org.au/program