Newsletter of the High-Value Wood
Resources
research programme of the CRC for Forestry
ISSUE ONE: DECEMBER 2005
Season's greetings everyone! Best wishes for an
enjoyable holiday break, and I hope we all return refreshed and
ready for a great year of research and development. My thanks to
all who have helped to develop our programme thus far.
Since my last update sent on October 31, you will
be aware that CRC funds have started to flow and the research
projects are now getting under way. Detailed plans and budgets for
the first experimental studies are being developed by the research
providers in consultation with those industrial partners who manage
relevant field trials and tree populations.
We are now formally setting up the Project Steering
Committees (PSCs) and Programme Co-ordination Committee (see below). PSCs will need to approve the
detailed experimental plans early in the new year.
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Programme committees and their
roles
It is now necessary to formally constitute these
committees for Programme Two. The CRCF Board has endorsed the
following guidelines on the roles of these committees. Read more on
the CRC for Forestry members' website*.
*only members of the CRC for Forestry will be able
to download this document. Members will need to register for access
to the members' website.
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Provisional membership of committees for
Research Programme Two
To get things started, I have formulated
provisional initial memberships of the committees as follows, based
upon the listed project participants and their likely active
participation in the projects, and availability of individuals.
Read more on the CRC for Forestry members'
website*.
We will lodge concise written minutes of the
committee meetings as they occur, on the relevant project and
programme pages of the CRCF members' website.
*only members of the CRC for Forestry will be able
to download this document. Members will need to register for access
to the members' website.
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What's on
Several CRC people made presentations at the recent
International Conference on Plantation Eucalyptus: Challenge in
Product Development (November 28 - December 1) at Zhaniang, China.
You can access the slide presentations here.
On the CRC for Forestry members' website (under the
RP2 group) I have posted an interesting review paper that Ryde
James co-authored for FAO, titled "The potential for
fast-growing commercial forest plantations to supply high value
roundwood".
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Project news
Welcome to post-doctoral researchers and
students
Don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for PhD
candidates! We have additional places for PhDs across our
projects.
Field work starting at Gould's Country

Forestry Tasmania's Eucalyptus nitens
pruning/thinning trial at Goulds Country, NE Tasmania, was planted
1984 and the pruning and thinning treatments established in 1990.
Assessment of growth, stem and crown form in the different
treatments of this trial, is now under way in Project 2.2, prior to
processing and wood sampling studies that will be conducted on logs
from the trial in 2006 under Projects 2.3 and 2.4. The photo above
(taken by Maria
Ottenschlaeger, Ensis) shows an unthinned, pruned plot, with
stocking now approximately 700 trees per hectare. In the foreground
is an unpruned buffer tree.
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