New Zealand Forest Owners Association

14 March 2013

Research that may help nursery growers produce faster growing, more robust radiata pine seedlings has been recently published by Christchurch-based Scion microbiologist, Simeon Smaill and Katrin Walbert from the Rotorua office.

14 March 2013

The downed limbs and other woody debris that are inevitable byproducts of timber harvest could be among the most important components of post-harvest landscapes, according to a new study led by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station.

14 March 2013

A Canadian architect has come to New Zealand this week rooting for the use of building designs with a "feel good" factor.

13 March 2013

Nelson logging crews are working half days and public access to most of the region's forests is being closed as the relentlessly hot weather and spiralling fire danger continues to bite. 

7 March 2013

Forest owners and scientists believe forest growing can be made much more profitable. But to make it happen growers need to invest in well-targeted research.

7 March 2013

The shutters are coming down on the illegal log trade across the western world. The European Union has just made it a crime to import illegally harvested timber and wooden products into the EU, joining the United States and Australia which have similar bans.

7 March 2013

Woodscape, an economic evaluation of wood processing opportunities, has been completed by Crown Research Institute Scion.

28 February 2013

Polls in the Forest Voice referendum will be open from 1-29 March, a week longer than originally intended.

26 February 2013

A new tablet app developed at Port Nelson has brought the process of logging log loading into the digital age.

22 February 2013

The NZ Government is establishing a new, stand-alone health and safety agency, says labour minister Simon Bridges.