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Webinar to prepare for coming bushfire season

14 September 2020
The Institute of Foresters Australia (IFA) is hosting a webinar on 23 September to focus on preparation for the next bushfire season in Australia. Source: Timberbiz Gary Morgan AM AFSM will provide a brief round-up of findings and recommendations which were released by State-level inq
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OFO water testing on Limestone Coast

11 September 2020
OneFortyOne’s annual water testing program has confirmed its forestry operations are having minimal impact on the Limestone Coast environment. Each winter, OneFortyOne conducts water testing at between 10 and 15 sites to determine whether herbicides applied to control weeds when pine
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2020 Tree Report – a post bushfire focus

09 September 2020
Planet Ark has released its 2020 Tree Report in the wake of relentless drought, a brutal and tragic summer of bushfires and the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian people and land are facing the task of recovering and rebuilding. Regeneration is perhaps more important for
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‘Bodgy’ paper clearly shows a conflict of interest

09 September 2020
The Australian Forest Products Association wants the University of Tasmania to investigate Dr Jennifer Sanger over her links to the Bob Brown Foundation. Dr Sanger was co-author of a peer reviewed scientific paper with Professor James Kirkpatrick and Suyanti Winoto-Lewin from the Univ
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SA receives additional $4.9m for Cudlee Creek and KI recovery

07 September 2020
South Australia’s bushfire recovery has been given a $4.9 million boost to help further support work being done for both Cudlee Creek and Kangaroo Island fire-impacted communities. The additional funding will help with more clean-up work, a feral pig eradication program on Kanga
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Fireball to roll out instant bushfire detection system

07 September 2020
  Inventors of a system which can detect bushfires in minutes will share in more than $5 million from the Morrison Government to roll out the technology here at home and overseas. Source: Timberbiz Fireball’s bushfire detection, mapping, and intelligence system uses satellite and
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Timberlink to reduce greenhouse gases by 2030

04 September 2020
Timberlink has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 21% by 2030. The company’s carbon reduction targets have been verified and approved by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi). Source: Timberbiz Using FY18 as a base year Timberlink will commit to reduce scope 1, 2 a
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AKD Caboolture mill reopens safer than before

04 September 2020
AKD’s Caboolture Sawmill will recommence operations on September 14 following a storage shed fire in June. The company says the reopening had been made possible due to the rebuilding of the fuel handling system which will make for a safer and more sustainable business in the long term
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Opinion: Shane Broad – erroneous forestry paper’s removal shows dangers of conflicted science

04 September 2020
The withdrawal of a high-profile, error-filled University of Tasmania study linking logging practices to an increased risk of bushfires is an unfortunate reminder of how easily faulty science can gain credibility. More importantly, it demonstrates the importance of rigorously reviewin
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Friday analysis: faulty scientific paper has damaged all sides

04 September 2020
So, a peer-reviewed scientific paper, written by Professor James Kirkpatrick, Suyanti Winoto-Lewin and Jenny Sanger from the University of Tasmania’s Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences, has been retracted from the MDPI journal Fire. The journal has apologised to its readers.
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