Thirty-six Forestry Corporation of NSW firefighters have been honing their skills in a five-day training camp at Bombala in preparation for the fire season ahead. Source: Timberbiz Staff from the Bombala, Tumut, South Coast, Coffs Harbour and Walcha Forest Protection Areas were traine

Dr Michelle Freeman has been elected vice president of the Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers and Jan Newport has joined as a director. Source: Timberbiz Returning IFA/AFG president Bob Gordon said the new appointments would grow skill capacity and diver

Michael Lee, one of Australia’s foremost experts in timber and widely regarded as the technical expert on Tasmanian timber, has joined CLTP Tasmania as operations manager. Source: Timberbiz In January next year CLTP Tasmania will have a market-ready product and a new brand with planta

High-profile conservationist Bob Brown was arrested in Tasmania yesterday for trespassing on an active logging site. Protestors, apparently from the Bob Brown Foundation, halted logging in Tasmania’s North Eastern Tiers. Three people locked themselves onto a log loader. Source:

The pandemic and worldwide lockdowns may have detrimentally affected the tropical timber market in 2020, but in 2021 the market is projected to rebound back and even above pre-pandemic levels. That was the sentiment from the TTF Tropical Timber Market Webinar that brought together spe

The US Department of Commerce announced affirmative final antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) circumvention rulings involving exports of hardwood plywood products from China, finding that hardwood and decorative plywood with veneers made of certain types of softwood (r

Sometimes it is the simple solutions that are the ingenious ones according to Håkan Johansson, landowner in Sala, Sweden and the man behind a new idea to help firefighting efforts using existing forestry machinery. Source: Timberbiz Recently, Skogforsk, the Swedish forestry research i

Farmers can now better understand the potential opportunities from carbon reducing activities using a farming tool developed by CSIRO. The LOOC-C (‘Look See’) app gives farmers detailed assessments of how their land and farming practices could be eligible for rebates under the Climate

Landslides can cause substantial environmental, social and economic impacts. Under future climate scenarios the frequency of landslide-triggering events is likely to increase. Land managers urgently require reliable high-resolution landslide susceptibility models to inform effective l