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Latest timber industry news, updated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

IFA Forest valuation seminars

The next workshop organised by the IFA Forest Valuation Standard subcommittee has an agenda that includes a wide range of topics such as Green Bonds, Natural Capital Accounting, Carbon Sequestration, Native Forests, as well as latest information and thinking on forest valuations. Sour
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Levy rebate available for 2019 wildfire affected private forest growers

Private Forests Tasmania (PFT) will assist private forest growers affected by the 2019 wildfires by providing a rebate for the private forest service levy (the levy), where the levy has been paid following timber harvesting operations in 2019 fire impacted forest areas. Source: Timber
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Councils get behind the push for Victorian Timber Release Plan

The Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) stated that Latrobe City and Wellington Shire councils have joined two other councils to put pressure on the State Government regarding the future of the Victorian native timber industry. East Gippsland Shire Council wrote to the A
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The buzz is that RFAs are good for bees

“Despite reports in ‘The Guardian’, the beekeeping industry wishes to work collaboratively with the forestry industry and state governments to ensure access to resources in state forests,” he said in a statement. “ALL values and uses of the forests need to be recognised throughout Aus
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Engineered wooden bike of LVL origins

Although wooden-frame bikes may not be a common sight out on the street, they’re plentiful at events such as the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. So, what makes one stand out there? Well, it helps if it’s made in a non-traditional manner – which is the case with Norma
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Arizona power generator may switch from coal to wood

Arizona’s largest electricity utility plans to test whether a coal-fired plant can instead be fueled by wood chips from pine trees, a conversion that could keep part of the plant open and save jobs of some its workers. Forest thinning that would produce the biomass for Arizona Public
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Brexit impact and stall is felt hard by timber businesses

SR Timber’s Trading Director joined business leaders to tell UK Conservative Nicky Morgan MP about the stark realities that businesses are facing as the uncertainty around Brexit continues. The group, which included the Confederation of British Industry, a high street bank and leading
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Now too many possums deny access to forestry

Thousands of Leadbeater’s Possums, the species which is officially listed as facing extinction, have now been found in the Central Highlands forests of Gippsland, the latest surveys show. A total of 688 known Leadbeater’s Possum colonies have been detected, according to the latest fig
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Grants for China projects or missions open

With $100,000 in grants now available through the 2019 Australia–China Agricultural Cooperation Agreement (ACACA) program for projects which grow agricultural trade between Australia and China agricultural businesses with project or trade missions are encouraged to apply. Australia’s
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