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VicForests works safe during Work Safe Month

20 October 2023
Throughout October, VicForests is embracing National Safe Work Month by committing to continually building a safer and healthier workplace for our valued staff. Source: Timberbiz This year’s National Safe Work Month theme is ‘For everyone’s safety, work safely’. Being healthy and safe
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Vic government refuses need for domestic firewood collection

18 October 2023
The Victorian State Government has refused to extend the domestic firewood collection period despite being aware of the huge shortfall in domestic firewood availability, largely due to its decision to close Victoria’s native timber industry. Source: Timberbiz In a question to Parliame
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Unburned forest, heavy fuel loads all make firefighting dangerous

18 October 2023
Peer-reviewed research published in the Australian Forestry journal has confirmed something that forest firefighters have long known: if forests are left unburned for many years, they still carry heavy bushfire fuels, making firefighting difficult and dangerous. Source: Timberbiz The
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RFA bushfire review shows indigenous groups want more involvement

16 October 2023
Timber harvesting is not a concern of Gippsland Indigenous groups, who overwhelmingly want to be involved in direct management of forests before, during and after bushfires, the RFA Major Event Review of the 2019/20 bushfires found. Source: Philip Hopkins, LaTrobe Valley Express The j
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Opinion: The Late Kevin Tolhurst AM – Contributions on bushfire mitigation

13 October 2023
Summary of some of Kevin Tolhurst contributions to the debate on bushfire policy (compiled by John Cameron and David Packham OAM, 7 October 2023). Kevin Tolhurst AM passed away on 5 October 2023, after delivering an address to a community forum on bushfire mitigation at Mallacoota. Ag
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Kevin Tolhurst’s final words of wisdom

09 October 2023
The passing on Thursday of forest scientist and Associate Professor Kevin Tolhurst AM is with much regret. By David Packham OAM and John Cameron Kevin was an expert in wildfire behaviour, prescribed burning techniques and guidelines, ecological management of landscapes, fire risk mana
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Fire tanker investment to protect NSW communities

04 October 2023
Forestry Corporation has taken delivery of three new fire tankers to ensure New South Wales communities are safeguarded from bushfires. Source: Timberbiz The state-of-the-art category one tankers have been supplied by the Rural Fire Service, as part of its new build program, to bolste
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Opinion: Nick Steel – Forestry sector has key role to play in keeping Tasmanians safe

29 September 2023
We know the coming fire season is shaping up to be potentially one of the worst on record. Warnings have been issued by the TFS, the Bureau of Meteorology and leading scientists and other respected organisations. Tasmanian government agencies and private organisations are already coor
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Mounting fire risk in forests where no contractors have worked

22 September 2023
The return of El Nino conditions and a rapid and early start to the fire season are pertinent reminders of the importance of planning, preparation and personnel when it comes to preventing and combating bush fires, particularly in the challenging terrain typical of forest areas. Sourc
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Opinion: Tim Bull – We should be ‘Safer Together’ instead we are at risk

22 September 2023
The State Government has again left us at great risk with this fire season approaching, clearly not having learned the lessons of 2019/20. Just four short years after we should have received the lesson of a lifetime with fires that burned 1.6 million ha and saw 396 houses destroyed de
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