Leviathan is the first wooden roller coaster built in Australia in 35 years. Coney Island’s 92-year-old Cyclone operates to this day with the same fundamental technology and design. Source: Timberbiz This same century old technology will be utilised on Leviathan and that’s

The Tasmanian Forests and Forest Products Network (TFFPN) will host its first ‘Burgers, Beers + Bright Ideas’ event next month at Hobart’s Shambles Brewery, with plans to hold similar gatherings across the state next year. Source: Timberbiz Network Convenor, Therese Taylor said the Ta

Concerns about the legitimacy of permanent exotic forest carbon farming projects threaten the future of sustainable forestry, Ekos chief executive Dr Sean Weaver says. Dr Weaver is the founder and CEO of Ekos, an environmental financing consulting business focusing on indigenous fores

Green Triangle Forest Products has chosen Trimble Forestry’s Land Resource Manager to manage 22,000 hectares of Pinus radiata, a medium-density softwood, in the Green Triangle area in South Australia and South Western Victoria. Source: Timberbiz LRM is part of Trimble’s Connecte

HVP’s Rob Hescock has been elected the new chairman of the Victorian Forest Products Association. He replaces Tony Price who has stood down due to his pending retirement in early 2022. Source: Timberbiz Mr Hescock represents the softwood plantation sector having worked in the in

Victoria’s Labor MPs have been challenged to reject the State Government’s Government plan to shut down the native hardwood timber industry by 2030. Source: Timberbiz Speaking in Federal Parliament, the Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester said he supported a sustainable timber

Mount Gambier-based ForestrySA ranger Kieran Gosden has won the 2021 Richard Stanton Award for her work in sustainable forestry and communities. The award and trophy, presented remotely during Responsible Wood AGM, recognises the life of a man who was devoted to the forest industry in

Bryce Jones has seen it all trying to fly his drones: equipment hiccups, execution mishaps, the time he miscalculated the takeoff angle and flew a vehicle right into a tree. Jones isn’t a hobbyist messing with backflips at the local park he’s head of Flash Forest, a start-up with the