Eighty five per cent of Tasmanian's endemic Huon Pine forests are protected in reserves and the remaining fifteen per cent are managed by Forestry Tasmania for long-term supplies of sawlogs and craftwood to provide processors, makers and users with beautiful and valuable Huon Pine timber. Huon Pine forests only grow in reserves or State forests, none are located on private land.
IST Strahan sells a range of Huon Pine craftwood pieces, logs, branches, stumps and limbwood to the public. All this material is salvaged by Forestry Tasmania from Teepookana State Forest and from Macquarie Harbour beaches. Please call the Strahan office in advance to make an appointment to select your raw material from the storage yard, tel. (03) 6472 6004.
New material arrives regularly. The following prices per cubic metre include loading: craft logs and stumps - $600 per cubic metre; limbwood less than 150 mm diameter - $800 per cubic metre; birds-eye figured wood - from $1,100 per cubic metre.
IST Geeveston (tel. 03 6296 7161) and IST Smithton (tel. 0428 467 408) also stock Huon Pine craft logs & limbwood and receive truck loads intermittently to replenish their stocks.
IST Geeveston also carry a small range of seasoned Huon pine boards, natural edge slabs, turning squares and blanks.