Forestry Talks 2005/06

• Date: 27th July 2005 - Speaker: Sue Jennings
  Increasing the sustainable blackwood supply for high value timber
  There is a sustainable yield of blackwood sawlog currently being produced from the blackwood swamps, FT seeks to increase the amount of high quality blackwood available.
  
  
• Date: 15th August 2005 - Speaker: Tim Wardlaw
  A pathologist talking rot
  Decay caused by wood-rotting fungi is a potent force in our forests. It can make trees worthless as sawlogs and as pulpwood but it also does the recycling and creates key habitats for tree and log-dwelling animals.
  

• Date: 16th August 2005 - Speaker: Steve Read
  Sustainable Forest Landscapes - new research approaches
  Landscape approaches to forestry, and how new research initiatives in Tasmania and overseas are improving management of our forested landscapes.
  
  
• Date: 17th August 2005 - Speaker: Peter Volker
  
How we know what trees to grow
Outlines why certain species are chosen for use in regenerated forests and plantations aimed at producing timber and other wood products utilising more than 50 years of research.


• Date: 18th August 2005 -Speaker: Dr Perpetua Turner
  
Tasmania's Wet Forests - teaming with bryophytes
Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) make up much of the 'green carpet' found in Tasmania's wet eucalypt forest.


• Date: 19th August 2005 - Speaker: Mr Mark Neyland
  
Forests Regenerate!
Mark Neyland discusses the Warra silvicultural systems trial in Tasmania’s Southern Forests where science is used to explore a range of alternatives to clearfelling in tall wet eucalypt forests.


• Date: 28th September 2005 -Speaker: Gary King
  Conservation of threatened species in State Forest
  How Forestry Tasmania manages the conservation of threatened species in areas of State Forest used for timber production.
  

• Date: 26th October 2005 - Speaker: Brad Potts
  Eucalyptus globulus: a tree for the world
  The first Europeans to discover Eucalyptus globulus were French explorers in 1792. Its seed was rapidly spread throughout the world in the 19th century.
  


• Date: 30th November 2005 -Speaker: Sandra Roberts
  
Water quality in Tasmanian forests
This presentation discusses the strategies that are used in Tasmanian forests to protect water quality, research and monitoring conducted by Forestry Tasmania.


• Date: 25th January 2006 - Speaker: Mike McLarin
  Calculating the sustainable wood supply from Tasmania's public forests
  Outlines the major components involved in wood resource estimation, being areas of forest, yields of wood and forest management strategy. The concept of sustainable yield is defined and described.
  
  
• Date: 22nd February 2006 -Speaker: John Hickey
  Silviculture for ongoing supply of Tasmania's Special Species Timbers
  Special Species Timbers is the term used to refer to non-eucalypt native trees such as blackwood, myrtle, leatherwood, sassafras and celery-top pine. This presentation will discusses the setting aside of these trees for high value purposes.
  
  
• Date: 29th March 2006 -Speaker: Mick Brown
  The Warra Long Term Ecological Research site - 10 years (and more) of research
  The Warra LTER site is part of an international network of sites with a long term ecological focus. This talk discusses past and current projects, examine emerging issues and suggests future roles for the site.
  
  
• Date: 26th April 2006 - Speaker: Simon Grove
  Beetling around the bush: forestry, research and the Tasmanian Forest Insect Collection
  Find out about some insect varieties and about the biodiversity, quarantine and forest health research projects that make use of, and contribute material to, the Tas Forest Insect Collection.
  
  CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE COMPLIMENTARY 2005/06 DVD COMPILATION