Forest Talk

New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) has kicked-off a multi-million-dollar project to upgrade a key rural road.

When it is finished, about five kilometres of Tarata Road between Inglewood and the Purangi Saddle will have been rebuilt, with the work concentrating on high-risk areas.

“Tarata Road is a significant regional and economic road but it’s under a lot of pressure from an increasing volume of logging trucks – it wasn’t built to withstand ..... more

A 10% U.S. tariff on all softwood lumber and timber imported from New Zealand will have significant financial repercussions on New Zealand’s forest growing industry, says the New Zealand Forest Owners Association (NZFOA).

Announced by United States President Donald Trump at the end of September, the tariff was the outcome of the Section 232 Investigation aimed at determining the effect imports of timber, lumber and their derivative products..... more