Shaws Iron Test; One quick slash grapple
You know things are going to get interesting when you are still 20 kilometres from the skid north of Gisborne and the road, halfway up the range, surrounded by grass paddocks for miles, suddenly looks like a hillbilly’s driveway due to cyclone damage. Out the gate steep and narrow and it’s got a twist in it. Surely log trucks or even regular trucks would fall off the side of this trail? Maps app says it’s a public road.
We have just driven past big warning signs announcing major risks ahead. I guess this is...
NZ Logger Feature Sections June 2024
Looking Back; A day in the sawmill
In this pictorial, Ron Cooke, a former Taumarunui engineer and now a sprightly 84-year-old historian happily researching and publishing local King Country events from ...
Biomass: Revolutionary plans for NZ’s forestry resources
Volumes of harvested trees on skid sites and landings may soon be manufactured by specialised plants locally. Every scrap of timber will be processed into a variety of...
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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