Shaws Iron Test; Built to last
The sparrows weren’t even thinking about their first fart when Iron Tester, Tony Hill, set off from his Tolaga Bay home base somewhere around 1AM, heading for work in the back of remote Ruatoria on the East Cape.
Around 10am he left his regular job tethered harvesting and set off on a three-and-a-half hour drive to meet us at this Iron Test in the mighty Mangatu Forest.
As for me, after traversing the frost-heaved roads of central Alaska on a recent work trip, I thought I had seen the worst roads in t...
NZ Logger Feature Sections March 2025
Forest Engineering; The case for two-stage trucking
Ten percent of all logging operations in New Zealand now involve some form of two staging. This has prompted Forest Growers Research (FGR) and the University of Canter...
Small-scale selective harvesting in action
In 2022, and then again in 2024, the Northland Tōtara Working Group (NTWG) harvested small volumes of tōtara from the same Pāmu (Landcorp Farming) property in Northlan...
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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