Signatories to Tasmania's forest peace deal were kept in the dark about the final size of a Wilderness World Heritage Area nomination. Source: ABC News

The Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) welcomed the announcement that the Victorian Government would invest $650,000 in Australia’s largest hardwood sawmill. Source: Timberbiz

Tasmania's forest peace deal inquiry has heard timber company Gunns was 'going rogue' in the early days of the process. Source: ABC

James Hardie joins 84 Lumber's “We Build American” initiative, along with builders and more than 180 companies in more than 40 states that sell American made building materials and products.

There was a higher lumber demand in the US in the third quarter of 2012, but sawlog prices have remained unchanged since 2011. Source: Wood Resource Quarterly

A Rotorua forestry company and a forestry contractor have been fined more than NZ$50,000. Source: Radio New Zealand

Special timber processors in Tasmania will have a critical shortfall in resource if the proposed World Heritage listing of 170,000 hectares of old-growth forest goes ahead. Source: The Mercury

Australia’s Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have come under fire from conservationists over a move in support of Ta Ann. Source: World-Wire