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Selecting fine timber for craft and furniture is now as easy as a mouse click, with the launch of Island Specialty Timbers’ new online store. Continue Reading...
One of the largest Huon pine logs in living memory has been recovered from a riverbank in Tasmania’s south. Continue Reading...
Every workplace has its fair share of quiet achievers, but perhaps none more so than FT’s Plant Mechanic, Darren Smith. His dedication to achieving an ambition held since he was a five-year-old boy was recently rewarded when he achieved his ultimate ambition of becoming bodybuilding’s Mr Australia. Continue Reading...
FT has released a new publication, Stewards of the Forest, which for the first time, brings together our key public reports (including the 2007 Annual Report) in one easy-to-access format. Continue Reading...
FT’s Tree Nutrition Research Officer, Dr Paul Adams, has been awarded a prestigious Gottstein Fellowship for a study tour of the south eastern United States in 2008. Continue Reading...
Basic, irrefutable facts are too often overlooked when the community becomes absorbed in a public controversy, particularly when that controversy occurs on the eve of a Federal election. And politics and science are uncomfortable bed-fellows, as the debate over the proposed pulp mill in northern Tasmania demonstrates. Continue Reading...
By Managing Director Bob Gordon
Foresters are entitled to a modest chuckle when they come across earnest young protesters perched dangerously atop timber tripods beseeching all to protect what they think is a stand of old growth forest.
The mistake is understandable. Naturally regrown native forest, cared for and tended by foresters over many decades can, and does, look as if it has never been touched by human hand. Continue Reading...