Forest Talk

Logging has always been defined by a complex balance between innovation, cost management, and environmental stewardship say the University of Canterbury’s Trevor Best and Rien Visser. Among the strategies gaining traction within this balancing act is “two-stage” trucking - a system that introduces an intermediate transport stage between initial log extraction and final load-out. Ten percent of all logging operations in New Zealand now involve some form of ..... more

Everyone knows Wagner’s are big, but to get up close to them and even ride in one while it is working is nothing short of awe inspiring. Did we mutter obscenities in awe? Yes we did. Heck we even made some legit outbursts, says Iron Test writer, Tim Benseman, of the Wagner L130 being tested at Rotorua Forest Haulage (RFH). 

He continues: “Every man should have one of these really. You’d save so much time loading and unloading pretty much everyth..... more

Anyone who spends their days in forestry terrain knows that what you wear on your feet plays a big role, not only in how safe your feet are, but in how tired you feel at the end of the day. We all know how sore our feet can be after a day of wearing boots that don’t support our feet properly, don’t feel good, and are just too heavy. 

We also know that feet are vulnerable in a forestry environment. According to data supplied by ACC, the active co..... more

Million-dollar machines were halted at a forestry skid site last month so Year 10 Campion College students could see what happens during a harvest.

It’s the first time in many years that Tairāwhiti students have been taken inside a commercial forest.  

Hosting the field trips was Erica Kinder, from the not-for-profit industry-funded programme Discover Forestry NZ. 

“A big part of the education programme was giving the teachers a..... more

Dame Patsy Reddy has been appointed as the new Chair of the Climate Change Commission, the independent Crown entity that provides the Government with advice, monitoring and reporting to support New Zealand’s transition to a climate-resilient, low emissions future.

“I’m pleased that Dame Patsy is joining the Commission. As former Governor-General, she will come to the role with an extensive and distinguished career in law and governance,” says Climate..... more

Scion has unveiled a $3.6 million upgrade in the form of two new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers. This allows scientists to delve deeper into the molecular structure of materials, enabling supporting New Zealand’s forest-based bioeconomy.

Understanding the molecular composition of materials is fundamental to everything researchers do in chemistry, biotechnology and materials science, and an essential part of developing products to repl..... more