A good trucking job
Next to getting trees on the ground, the biggest challenge facing a crew is shifting the wood out of the forest in a timely manner.
In large, properly laid-out corporate forests it’s not such a critical issue because permanent, well-formed roads allow conventional log trucks to get right into a skid site, load up and drive out quickly.
Not so in many smaller and intermediate forests, where skids/landings are located far away from the highway and tracks can be difficult and expensive to build, especially on steeper te...
NZ Logger Feature Sections June 2021
Native beech manufacturing on the rebound
Health Based Building’s new Foreverbeech demonstration home, featuring a variety of red and silver beech products, has become a popular attraction according to on-site...
Girl Power
You’ll probably never meet someone as calm as Ange Alexander. Her peaceful demeanour naturally rubs off on you when you're in the same room. Married to husband Mi...
Forest Talk
FGLT funding applications open next month
The Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT) application process for 2027 funding will take place in September this year as an open call, consistent with previous ye...
Helping track alpine ecosystems’ fire recovery
University of Canterbury students are gaining hands-on research experience while contributing to decades-long datasets tracking how native ecosystems recover...
Kauri protection platform recognised
Years of collaboration on helping protect Kauri has received international recognition.The New Zealand-developed platform’s use of geospatial technology rece...
Komatsu unit has power, stability, reach and height
It's off to the stormy West Coast for September's Iron Test – a Komatsu PC270HW sporting an Ensign grapple.It’s been a long time since we tested a machine in...
Mentors sought for Wāhine in Forestry programme
Wāhine in Forestry has launched a new mentorship programme. The idea of the programme is to connect women studying forestry with women working across the sec...
Reasons forest road closures are ignored
Why are recreational users ignore forestry road closures?Valuable insights into the answer to that question have come from a new survey of recreational fores...
Recloaking the Wellington region
A million native trees have been planted in Greater Wellington regional parks, a milestone in efforts to reforest former grazing land.The millionth tree was ...
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