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Tasmanians still have an opportunity to recognise the contributions of family members who have lost their lives while working in the forest industry in Tasmania by registering them for the Tasmanian Forest Memorial.
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Tasmania's forest landscapes have long been a source of inspiration for artists, as well as a source of timber. Two forest ecologists will paint a picture of how nature changed under European management of the southern forest landscape.
FORESTRY TALK - 13th April 1 pm
A YEAR ago Forestry Tasmania conservation biologist Simon Grove had begun treatment for life-threatening leukaemia and didn’t know if he would see the week out, let alone the month or the year.
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Forestry Talk by Dr Steve Read -
Chief Scientist, Forestry Tasmania
Today 23rd March, 1 pm.
Fire and carbon are at the heart of forest management in Tasmania. Steve will outline how the fire-dependent nature of eucalypt forests links these issues, and leads to development of sustainable harvesting systems. Reserve your seat today.
We almost got it completely right last year – there was only one weekend in April when smoke from our regeneration burns contributed to an exceedance of air quality standards.
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Don't miss the final episode in this series of Going Bush and your last chance to enter our competition to win 'The Ultimate Tasmanian Holiday". Sat 12/3 - 5 pm
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AS from today a range of specialty timber logs and stumps is available for sale by tender from the new Island Specialty Timbers outlet at Smithton.
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LOSING his hair was one of the side effects for Forestry Tasmania conservation biologist Simon Grove in his battle to overcome life-threatening myeloid leukaemia this time last year.
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In a great Friday evening at Franklin (25th Feb), the Derwent District lads posted a convincing win against the Huon District in a 20/twenty cricket match. Matthew Flakemore and Mark Bradley organised the match in what all involved hope would be the first of many games to come. Huon District has some very good lawn bowlers so you never know.
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THE flexibility, adaptability and resilience of native forest management, using variable retention as an example, will be discussed by Forestry Tasmania chief scientist Dr Steve Read at the Resilience 2011 conference to be held at Arizona State University from March 11-16.
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