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 News
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.
Big storm log rescue underway in Canterbury
17 Seprember 2013
Canterbury forest owners are up against the clock as they face the huge task of recovering a massive amount of wind-blown wood from their plantations in the next few months.
City Forests' dividend hits $4.4m
16 September 2013
The Dunedin City Council will reap a record $4.4 million dividend for the year to June from its ownership of City Forests.