Posted on Thursday 15th March 2018

Researchers at Scion are playing with fire in a bid to help fight future forest blazes in New Zealand.

Together with rural firefighters, they are setting fire to harvested corn fields around Darfield in Canterbury as part of a month-long trial to learn more about how wild fires behave, in order to develop advanced plans to fight them...

Posted on Thursday 15th March 2018

Logging on steep sites in environmentally fragile locations has come under the spotlight again in the wake of damage caused by ex-tropical cyclone Gita.

Residents in the Tasman region have signed a petition calling for stronger controls on logging after debris swept around their residences in Marahau and the Motueka valley during the storm late last month...

Posted on Thursday 15th March 2018

Forestry has been among the major drivers that has seen trade between New Zealand and China triple over the past decade.

New Zealand’s two-way trade with China increased more than three-fold in the past decade, according to Statistics NZ. It climbed from $8.6 billion in 2007 to $26.1 billion in the December 2017 calendar year...

Posted on Thursday 15th March 2018

Two-staging wood from a cramped landing to a load-out site can be an inefficient and time-consuming process if you don’t take the right options.

But not the way Rosewarne Cable Loggers is doing it on the Poutu Peninsula, just south of Dargaville...

Posted on Thursday 15th March 2018

Palmerston North City Council has decided to hang onto a valuable forest, after exploring the possibility of putting it up for sale.

The council’s Finance and Performance Committee unanimously voted to recommend that Council retain ownership...

Posted on Thursday 15th March 2018

And this month’s entry for the world’s tallest timber tower goes to…………Tokyo

Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world's tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country's highest of any type...