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Carbon storage and trading through farm forestry: A survey of farmers in Tasmania - Final report 2010

15 Oct 2020

Rural Development ServicesDecember 2010Don Defenderfer...
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Farm-scale sediment sources: Tree harvesting, cattle and roads

15 Oct 2020

Landscape Logic, Australian Government, March 2010Landscape Logic have put together a fact sheet outlining information about the erosion risks and effects associated with a 20 year old plantation of eucalypts in a streamline management zone. These results demonstrate the positive...
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Biodiversity outcomes from eucalypt plantation expansion into agricultural landscapes of southern Australia

15 Oct 2020

Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry, September 2011 - P GrimbacherMost new eucalpt plantations are established on what was previously agricultural land, and remnant vegetation often becomes embedded within plantation estates.Given rapid landscape change, there is significant industry, community and scientific...
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Willowbend - Strategic tree planting to restore eroded gullies and improve farm productivity

15 Oct 2020

Chris and Guiliana planted trees to improve farm productivity, water quality and biodiversity as well as produce timber.They prepared a property management plan to integrate trees into their farm with their main aim to protect streams from livestock and revegetate...
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Tasmanian Forest Industry launches COVID-19 Recommended Practices

15 Oct 2020

The Tasmanian Forest Industry has today released a document of recommended practices to help the industry to continue to operate safely as COVID-19 restrictions ease.The 45-page document “COVID-19 Recommended Practices for Tasmanian Forest Industry Operations” was created as a collaboration...
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Formosa - Agroforestry improves enterprise income

15 Oct 2020

When timber and non-timber values are accounted for, carefully integrating trees into agricultural landscapes can be a profitable and attractive option with strongly competitive internal rates of return.Read more...
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Tasmanian Government releases COVID Safe Workplace Guidelines

15 Oct 2020

The Tasmanian Government has released the COVID Safe Workplace Guidelines for the Forestry Industry (the Guidelines).The Guidelines set out what employers should do as they continue, or seek to resume, business operations. By following these Guidelines, workplaces will be able...
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Developing glulam from fibre-managed plantation Eucalyptus nitens

15 Oct 2020

Glue laminated timber, commonly known as ‘glulam’, is a highly attractive, versatile structural solution for architects and structural engineers thanks to its ability to achieve long spans and curves, without compromising strength or aesthetic qualities....
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Formosa - Shelter increased pasture production by 30%

15 Oct 2020

Pasture productivity in spring 2017 was on average 30% higher in the sheltered half of a paddock compared to the unsheltered half. A Prinus radiata shelterbelt occupied approximately 1 ha of the paddock (4%), but induced a 15% increase in...
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Looking to improve water quality? Plant trees.

30 Sep 2020

Dr Philip Smethurst, as a soil and water scientist at the CSIRO, has been studying the effects on water quality of plantation forestry in streamside management zones on Tasmanian farms. His conclusions? If all farmers were using trees for water...