A shortlist of prospective buyers is being drawn up as part of the sale of a portfolio of eight forests located in Northland, Waikato, Gisborne/East Coast and Canterbury.

The eight forests, collectively held under the Project Tapuwae Forest Estate, total around 2503 hectares of mostly Radiata Pine, all ready for harvesting or currently being harvested...

Today we take mechanisation for granted in forestry, but it wasn’t always like that.

Once New Zealand’s forests started to be exploited for their timber pioneer loggers soon came up against a problem that seemed insurmountable – how to move a log weighing several tonnes to where it could be transported to a mill for sawing into timber...