21 October 2013
Labour is calling for an inquiry into the economics of forestry processing, with leader David Cunliffe saying importing timber for the Christchurch rebuild while New Zealand mills were closing was "lunacy".
Forestry News
Future Forests Research celebrates research achievements
14 October 2013
Future Forests Research (FFR) has released its 2013 Annual Science Report, summarising six years of impressive research outputs.
Gisborne conservator worries about NES
14 October 2013
The Gisborne District Council's environmental services manager believes the proposed national environmental standard (NES) for plantation forestry could lower environmental standards for forestry in the district.
Forestry powers the East Coast economy
11 October 2013
Forestry is delivering a massive economic benefit to the Gisborne/East Coast region and, with an expected boom in log exports, by 2020 one in 10 people could earn a living from the sector, according to a new economic study.
Forest growers to elect first board
9 October 2013
The Forest Growers Levy Trust, the new organisation representing the interests of all plantation forest owners, large and small, is calling for nominations for its first elected board.
Southern forestry firms defend safety record
9 October 2013
Forestry companies in Otago and Southland are defending their industry's safety record following criticism this week from the Labour Party.
Labour looks to forestry to create jobs in Northland
5 October 2013
A Labour Government would "upgrade" a long running forestry joint venture between the Crown and Northland Maori land owners to give young Maori badly needed jobs replanting recently logged forests.
Big government investment in forest research
29 August 2013
The government is investing more than $30 million in two major research programmes of direct benefit to forest owners.
Damage to ETS revealed
18 September 2013
The kindest view you could have of the Emissions Trading Scheme, what's left of it, is that it is a brutally pruned seedling barely surviving in frozen ground, says business columnist Brian Fallow in the NZ Herald.