Forestry Talks 2006/07

Forestry Talks as presented by the Division of Forest Research & Development are available on DVD Video.

The 2006/07  DVD compilation includes 8 Forestry Talks:

• Date: 15th Aug 2006 - Speaker: Steve Read
  The science behind regenerating native forests for the sustainable supply of quality timber
  This presentation discusses some of the systems that are currently used to regenerate native forests after harvesting.
  

• Date: 16th Aug 2006 - Speaker: Simon Grove
  Maintaining biodiversity when regenerating production forests
  This talk explores some of the research carried out to gauge the effectiveness of various elements in a landscape-wide strategy for conserving biodiversity.
  

• Date: 27th Sept 2006 - Speaker: Parry Kostoglou
  Protecting our forest cultural heritage
  This talk covers the challenges to archaeologists and land managers arising from the discovery and protection of often long-forgotten cultural remains from the past 200 years of European occupancy of Tasmania’s forests.
  

• Date: 29th Nov 2006 - Speaker: Tim Wardlaw
  Port monitoring for entry of exotic forest pests
  New methods for detecting exotic forest pests and pathogens have been developed from research by Forestry Tasmania, and are being adopted nationally by quarantine agencies as part of an Urban Surveillance Program.
  

• Date: 31st Jan 2007 - Speaker: Andrew Walsh
  Integrated browsing management without 1080
  This talk outlines the strategy for adoption of integrated pest management as a replacement for 1080-based management of mammal browsing in Tasmanian State Forest.
  

• Date: 28th Feb 2007 - Speaker: Greg Nolan
  Solid wood products from a hardwood forest
  This presentation provides an overview of Tasmania's hardwoods and their application, major factors in hardwood processing and future opportunities for value-adding.
  

• Date: 24th April 2007 - Speaker: Dean Williams
  Breeding the best trees for Tasmanian Hardwood Plantations
  This talk highlights how Forestry Tasmania selects, captures, improves and deploys the most productive genetic material for hardwood plantation forestry in Tasmania.
  

• Date: 30th May 2007 - Speaker: Perpetua Turner
  How our bushfire history can be used to benchmark our native forest management
  This talk introduces the 'Wildlife Chronosequence Project' and discuss how a set of bushfire and silvicultural reference sites in southern Tasmania are being used to inform native forest management.
  
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