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NEWS ILLEGAL LOGGING LEGISLATION Competition for forest thinkers announced soon WINNERS of the thinking and and other factors that writing competition for smart were adversely impacting on young minds in the forest domestic wood and industry will be announced in bre supply. two weeks. Mr Halkett said that Co-publisher of Timber & following the announcement Forestry enews John Halkett of winners, the entries from The competition, held Wood, asked for suggestions says that with the deadline the rst and second place- in collaboration with about how to ll Australia’s for entries extended until getters would be published December 15 last year, Queensland’s HQPlantations, wood bre basket given the in an abridged form in additional inquiries and entries Forest and Wood Products extended period of minimal subsequent editions of Timber needing to be reviewed. Australia and Responsible new plantation establishment & Forestry enews. Compliance: be aware ... very aware Roma penalty a warning ‘shot across the bows’ A PENALTY notice for regulation is $12,600. $12,600 served to a That is, for breaches that Queensland-based timber are black and white. The importer is a warning ‘shot ultimate criminal penalty for across the bows’ to all negligence when importing importers of timber and illegally logged wood is up wood-based products. to ve years in jail and there This penalty is the are a whole series of civil rst since the ‘soft start- penalties that could prove compliance period’ ended in costly to any importing January last year. business – not to mention damage to reputation if you Details are scant, but are named, which can be far Timber&Forestry enews costlier. is aware the Department Nabbed… of cials measure and seize illegal logs at a Southeast Asia Many volume timber of Agriculture and Water export facility. importers who have been Resources has now audited complying with the regulation consignments of more than Regulation. More compliance audits are say that penalties have been 600 Australian businesses scheduled for 2019. The businesses audited slow in coming. for compliance with the include many timber, plywood The minimum penalty for Illegal Logging Prohibition and veneer importers. ‘technical breaches’ of the Cont P 3

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A show of women’s strength NEWS ILLEGAL LOGGING LEGISLATION

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Sydney-based Stephen Mitchell, a specialist in due diligence for illegally logged wood, has been helping importers understand and deal with the risks for some 14 years. “I have helped a good number of importers of FOLS timber, ply and veneer get Skills Verification Program their due diligence right,” he said. 1 “Many of them are 1/ The good stuff… a good complying with the number of importers of timber, ply and veneers are getting their due regulations and have been diligence right. asked by government of cials 2/ Stephen Mitchell… helping for information about the due companies to review their systems. diligence on speci c imports. None of my clients has had a around 385 containers of non-compliance notice, which illegally-logged merbau wood is pleasing, but it is not the harvested in the Papua time to be complacent.” 2 province and valued at more Mr Mitchell is now helping than $A10 million. straightforward. However, companies with a review of It will be interesting to given the prevalence of illegal their systems. see if any of that timber logging in these countries, But he says he still hears was destined for Australian 20% you have to have systems from clients about other importers or if the Indonesian in place to ensure you and Off importers who have little government has tracked your staff are monitoring or no understanding of the previous exports from the that each and every requirements and are doing same supply chains. consignment complies with Discount nothing about them. the regulations.” These compliance actions * “Considering that the and constantly evolving trade available In other illegal logging regulation has been in place conditions – US-China tariff news, Indonesian media has since 2012, it boggles the battles for example – highlight for AFCA reported that, over the last mind the risk they are taking the need for Australian timber two months in Surabaya and Members! as compliance is really not importers to keep on top of Makassar, the Indonesian that dif cult once you get into their due diligence for illegally government has seized logged wood. it,” Mr Mitchell said. ✔ Evidence of employees’ Why run the risk? Get on “For example, if you MANY VOLUME current skills and training are importing timber from the road to compliance. ✔ IMPORTERS ARE Supports WHS Malaysia or Indonesia, Contact Stephen Mitchell’s risk management the available Country COMPLYING WITH on (02) 8006 8850 or mobile ✔ Supports professionalism Speci c Guidance can THE REGULATION 0432 860 100. Email steve@ and safety of industry make compliance quite smassociates.com.au www.fols.forestworks.com.aufols.forestworks.com.au 1800 177 001 Linda Sewell to speak at AFPA members’ dinner *Australian Forest Contractors THE CEO of Melbourne- of gender balance – and why timber operations in Australia Association (AFCA) based Onefortyone quotas and child care centres and owns the harvesting Plantations Linda Sewell will won’t shift the dial’. rights of the Green Triangle be special guest speaker at The event will be in the plantation estate from the the Australian Forest Products Bradman Room, Manuka South Australian government. Association members’ dinner Oval, Manuka, starting at Dinner ticket inquires to in Canberra on March 7. 6 pm. AFPA on (02) 6285 3833 An industry-led program managed by ForestWorks Ms Sewell will address the OneFortyOne is an investor or email to dinner on ‘tackling the issue in forest plantations and [email protected]

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Sustainability earns security FIRE WATCH TASMANIA Close watch on forests as res rage over wide area of Tasmania JIM BOWDEN

WITH worsening water area.The Southwood (Huon) shortages, hot weather and wood processing site at not a drop of rain, Tasmania Judbury in southern Tasmania, is suffering one of its worst operated by Sustainable re seasons as scores of Timbers Tasmania subsidiary blazes burn through forests, Netwood, was damaged by farms and townships across re, although Tasmania Fire southern and central regions. Service and STT crews were Caused by a bombardment able to put out spot res in of lightning strikes in recent log heaps, sawdust piles and weeks, the Tasmanian Fire wood waste. However, a fuel Service is battling major storage shed and chemical bush res on three fronts – 1 storage areas were damaged the Huon Valley on the Central 1/ Surveying the damage… and sawdust in a sawdust Plateau, Gell River in the Tasmanian re ghters in hopper caught on re. southwest and at Zeehan on Tasmania’s Central Highlands. 2/ Rob de Fégely… at Nature’s The site is designed the west coast. mercy. to improve ef ciencies, About 500 personnel are utilisation and value of will be bolstered by about 60 working on the res, including harvested plantation and new arrivals today (Thursday). those from interstate and native forest logs by co- New Zealand, and their ranks Closely monitoring the locating a range of wood processing businesses close 2 to the forest. movement of the res that A sawmill and a rotary threaten large areas of peeled veneer mill operate APPRENTICES & TRAINEES plantation forests and re- on the site and planning growth areas, the chairman of approvals are current for a Sustainable Timbers Tasmania potential bio-fuel power plant Rob de Fégely said 140,000 to utilise residues. ha of forest had been burnt with a re line of 1300 km. FIRE FIGHTERS “With 500 re ghters working across the state ARRIVE that’s 3 km of re line per FROM NZ person, which any forester will tell you is more than one The Bureau of Meteorology person can handle in a heavy is predicting temperatures on forest re,” he said. Friday will peak at mid to high Mr de Fégely said res 20s across most of the state, were entering the Mount with inland areas in the south Field national park, 65 km reaching the low 30s. northwest of Hobart, which The bureau is warning was putting a lot pressure and that strong and gusty north- grief on parks staff. westerly winds combined “You’re at Nature’s mercy with hot temperatures will when winds constantly create very high to severe change from northerly to ongoing re danger across southerly scattering embers the central, eastern and in all directions over a wide southern regions.

4 TIMBER & FORESTRY E-NEWS | ISSUE 544 | January 31, 2018 INDUSTRY NEWS Strong approval for IFA-AFG merger THE Institute of Foresters of Australia has voted overwhelmingly to merge with Australian Forest Growers, creating a body with potentially more punch in the forest industry. More than 90% of IFA voters supported the merger at an extraordinary general meeting last week. A group of younger IFA members, the Future Foresters Initiative, supported United… back row, from left, David Fisken, Greg Unwin, Stuart Davey, Lachie McCaw, Dave Cromarty, Jim the merger proposal, Wilson and Leon Holt; front row, from left, Gary Morgan, Bob Gordon, Jacquie Martin, and Gary Featherston. maintaining that its views represented the next members, greater nancial of many IFA members,” said being more inclusive of those generation of IFA members, power and a wider range of one senior IFA member. who come into the industry young professionals, students membership.” However, the FFI argued through non-traditional and emerging leaders in the pathways is crucial to the Several IFA members, that a broader membership forestry sector. future of the IFA.” however, pointed to different with new priorities was exactly IFA president Bob Gordon interests of the IFA and the what the IFA needed to The FFI acknowledged said the merger provided an AFG, and questioned how remain a relevant organisation that changes needed to exciting opportunity to raise be managed carefully. they could be reconciled. for foresters in the future. the pro le, enhance member Membership categories in They said the AFG value and advance the cause particular had the potential of sustainable professional mainly included people REPRESENTING to generate friction within forest management. and companies who were THE NEXT the IFA, and a full review of Full implementation of essentially land owners whose GENERATION the categories should be interest is con ned to timber the merger will take several OF FORESTERS completed as a priority once months. Likely advantages production on private property. the merger is complete. include more members in “It is understood their Two retiring IFA board “The institute’s long-term regional areas, more eld trips eld days and meetings have members will be replaced survival depends on such an and opportunities to discuss centred on this function rather by AFG members, but the expansion and a re-de nition forestry matters. than the full range of forest FFI argued that the new IFA “The new merged group values, such as recreation, of the IFA’s purpose and board needed representation could also possibly inuence biodiversity, and water goals,” the FFI said. from the next generation of public debate by having more catchments that are the focus “Increasing membership by foresters and IFA members.

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TIMBER & FORESTRY E-NEWS | ISSUE 544 | January 31, 2018 5 TIMBER INNOVATION Timber frames the preference for multi-residential aged care AS the population ages and focus turns to quality aged care, so too does the focus on the design, construction and ongoing maintenance of the aged care facilities themselves. In addition to using locally and sustainably sourced No age barrier… construction materials, architect’s Australian construction impression of Estia Health’s company Living Choice aged care facility selected Hyne Timber’s at Maroochydore. termite-resistant T2 Blue framing for its latest multi- in South Africa, then the UK collaboration with structural provides a simple, load residential aged care project before moving to Australia. and service engineers, I bearing solution to hang the on Queensland’s Sunshine He explains how this latest made the call to use all façade Coast. project has a large, complex timber frames for this Hyne Timber customer project,” Mr Danter said. Living Choice project roof and framing detail and Sunshine Mitre 10 expects manager Warren Danter has it was clear from the early “Anyone in construction to see demand for timber many years’ experience in design stages that it needed knows that timber frames are increase in these types of construction, initially learning to be timber. easier to work with and install multi-residential projects. all he could from his father “From initial design on site. Commercial sales manager “Construction is rarely Russell Maher said more perfect and even concrete and more developments are slabs can vary in height. This being approved throughout The united voice is where there is a real cost southeast Queensland saving using timber frames and across Australia as the and trusses. bene ts of this type of aged for Australia's “We can readily dock care facility were realised. it, plane it or do whatever “As the standards of aged we need to do including care improves, the demand forest industries accommodating services. for community-style living “Importantly, this is a home and support networks for aged care residents. provided by these types of Having a timber frame means multi-residential facilities is the nal build will be quieter. increasing,” Mr Maher said. There is nothing worse than “Speci ers and builders natural wear and tear down need to consider the the track resulting in noise construction materials they from services vibrating are using which will no against steel or loud, steel doubt see more and more door frames.” recognition of the bene ts The tastefully designed of timber.” building is a hybrid of construction materials, using On the cover: Russel Maher, Sunshine Mitre 10 commercial a range of design solutions sales manager, Sam Hyne, to suit the needs of the client business management cadet and a sixth generation of the Estia Health, including a Hyne family, and Peter oating brick façade. Using Tregaskis, Hyne’s timber large lintels straight into the customer manager, on the Estia Health care facility site. timber studs, timber framing

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FEBRUARY 2019 an evening of celebration, [email protected] in Ecuador. Included will presentations and dinner in be field visits to operating 14: Timber Preservers 8: AFPA members’ forum Nelson on Friday, June 14 at forests, manufacturing, Association of Australia and chamber meetings – the Trafalgar Event Centre. and processing of wood meetings – Melbourne, Canberra, Australia. For further information see: products, and selected agri- Australia. Technical www.totsforestry.co.na or call 8: Forest Industry Advisory and aqua- export oriented committee will meet 10-30 Prue Younger, Event Manager Council (AFIC) meeting – am-12.15 pm with the TPAA operations. For further +64 (21) 2765484 Canberra, Australia council meeting 3 pm to 5.30 information and to register see: https://danaevents. pm. Contact Jack Norton, 5-6: ABARES Outlook 2019 17: Women in Forest co.nz/2019ecuador/ TPAA secretary, on +61 (0)418 Conference – Canberra, Industries workshop – 989 398 or email jak.norton@ Australia. Outlook 2019 is Canberra, Australia. 17-18: Frame Australia gmail.com. Skype: jak.norton1 focused on the outlook for More information and – Crown Promenade registration inquiries to Natalie 18-22: Gottstein Forest Australia’s agriculture sector Melbourne, Australia. A Heazlewood. Email: natalie. Science Course – Australian and will connect leading dedicated conference and [email protected] National University national and international exhibition will allow delegates speakers with highly Canberra, Australia. Visit 26-29: AUSPACK Packaging to fully understand the motivated and information- www.gottstein.org.au and Processing Week – exciting developments in the seeking delegates at 14 Melbourne, Australia. Timber Offsite Construction 27: Launch of Queensland sessions across two days space. The conference will Parliamentary Friends of and provide a rich menu of APRIL feature prominent local and Forest & Timber Network – insights, ideas and information 1-2: National Sustainability global experts, with topics Brisbane, Australia. 6.30-8 relevant to Australian rural Conference – Brisbane, exclusively devoted to timber pm. Open to all of industry – a sector. Speakers include Australia and mass wood building landmark event demonstrating the Minister for Agriculture construction. It will be the to MPs the strength and 4: Built Evolution and Water Resources only event that will enable diversity of the entire industry Conference – Perth, David Littleproud (opening delegates to appreciate the supply chain. Lock it in! Australia. 'Taking timber to address) on March 5; Ross world-wide transformation Industry associations will new heights' – Timber Insight. Hampton, CEO, Australian that is taking place and how send out invitations to their For additional information Forest Products Association building costs are being members. Anyone interested contact Greg Meachem (the ultimate renewable and lowered. At the Frame should email admin@ Tel: 08 9791 4599; Mob: 0498 social licence) on March Australia exhibition, booth timberqueensland.com.au for 5; and Senator Richard 121 262, or email: greg@ more detailed information. timberinsight.com.au sizes will be larger at no extra Colbeck, Assistant Minister cost, with booths two to MARCH for Agriculture and Water JUNE three times the previous floor Resources (ministerial 1: Top of the South 16-21: 2019 DANA Ecuador area without any change in address) on March 6. Forestry Awards – Nelson Forestry and Agri-/Aqua- pricing from 2018. Visit www. and Marlborough, New 7: AFPA board meeting business Investment Tour frameaustralia.com and members’ dinner Zealand. Inaugural awards – Ecuador. This event will 19: AFPA board meeting in fourteen categories to be – Canberra, Australia. introduce potential investors and members’ dinner – awarded across individual and 6pm. Guest speaker Linda to the forestry and agri- and Canberra. 6pm. companies, with the ultimate Sewell, CEO of Onefortyone aqua- business; as well as award being the Skilled Plantations. Dinner ticket the commercial, financial, 20: AFPA members’ forum Professional of the Year. The inquires to AFPA on (02) 6285 political, and economical and chamber meetings – awards will culminate to 3833 or email aspects of investments Canberra, Australia.

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TCA has a clear view to the future CALENDAR OF EVENTS GLOBAL

JANUARY 2019 mass plywood panels, no/nfi100years 16-17: ICATEA 2019: dowel-laminated timber, and 21st International 24: Mapping the Course: JUNE laminated veneer lumber; Conference on Advanced Timberland, Forest Products and the opportunities and 16-21: 2019 DANA Ecuador Processing, and Fiber Timber Engineering and obstacles for mass timber Forestry and Agri-/Aqua- Issues for 2019 – Vancouver, Applications – Zurich, in global manufacturing and business Investment Tour Washington, USA. The Switzerland. The conference construction. See: www. – Ecuador. This event will conference and optional aims to bring together masstimberconference.com/ introduce potential investors workshop will provide an leading academic scientists, to the forestry and agri- and in-depth analysis on forest APRIL researchers and research aqua- business; as well as products market challenges, scholars to exchange and 10-12: Focus on Forestry the commercial, financial, opportunities, and threats for share their experiences 2019 – Mpumalanga, South political, and economical 2019 in the North American and research results on all Africa. For further information aspects of investments West Coast timberland region. aspects of advanced timber see: www.cmo.co.za in Ecuador. Included will For further information see: engineering and applications. be field visits to operating https://westernforestry.org/ M AY forests, manufacturing, For further information upcoming-conferences/ 7-9: RISI's Sixth Annual and processing of wood see: https://waset.org/ mapping-the-course- Forest Investment products, and selected agri- conference/2019/09/zurich/ timberland-forest-products- Conference – London, UK. and aqua- export oriented ICATEA processing-and-fiber-issues- A key two day conference operations. For further for-2019 that will take an in-depth look SEPT/OCT information and to register at timberland investments 29 SEPT-25 OCT: XXV IUFRO MARCH see: https://danaevents. around the globe and how World Congress – Curitiba, 19-21: International Mass co.nz/2019ecuador/ these opportunities will unfold Brazil. For further information Timber Conference – in the near future. For further JULY see: www.iufro2019.com Portland, Oregon. The information see: 8-18: IUFRO Small-scale largest gathering of cross- NOVEMBER www.risi.com/invest Forestry Conference laminated timber and other 19-21: Malaysian Wood Expo 8-11: World Conference on – Lake Superior in mass timber experts in the 2019 – Putra World Trade forests for Public Health – Duluth, Minnesota, USA. world, with a special focus Email: Athens, Greece. For further Presentations and eld Centre, Kuala Lumpur. on manufacturing and mid- information see: sessions will explore a mix of info@malaysianwoodexpo. to high-rise construction. www.fph2019.org family-owned, tribal, industrial, com.my or visit www. Over 1,200 experts from and public ownerships with malaysianwoodexpo.com.my 22 countries attended in 20-23: A Century of National a focus on small-scale forest 2018.The conference will Forest Inventories: Informing • Please send any events management. For further explore the supply chain Past, Present and Future listings to John Halkett information see: http://iufrossf. for cross-laminated timber Decisions – Oslo, Norway. via email: johnh@ umn.edu/ (CLT), nail-laminated timber, For further information see: timberandforestryenews. glulam beams and panels, www.nibio.pameldingssystem. SEPTEMBER com

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8 TIMBER & FORESTRY E-NEWS | ISSUE 544 | January 31, 2018 NEWS HOUSING 2019 shapes as a tough year for residential building in Australia NEW home building across moment with the robust Australia is facing into its labour market fuelling a toughest year in almost a healthy pace of migration- decade with declining house driven population growth. prices and the fallout from As a result, the underlying the Royal Commission really demand for new home starting to bite. building was still elevated but Master Builders Australia unfortunately this was not says about 234,000 new being translated into stronger homes were started at the Housing starts… a challenge for residential building. activity on the ground peak of the market in 2016-17. because of the credit crunch the middle of the decade state governments have and decision paralysis ahead “We anticipate that output by a combination of strong erected prohibitive barriers to of the election. will decline to 210,200 during population growth, big foreign buyers.” Mr Garrett said reaction to 2018-19 overall and fall to house price gains, super However, Mr Garrett said the Hayne Royal Commission 197,500 during 2019-20,” chief low interest rates and keen the fundamentals of the had slowed the circulation of economist Shane Garrett demand from foreign buyers,” Australian economy were mortgage credit within the said. he said. actually pretty solid at the housing market and this was “A succession of further “Several of the ingredients the biggest factor holding declines will bring new home that made up this favourable activity back at the moment. starts down to 175,900 by mix are no longer in place. FUNDAMENTALS “Uncertainty in the lead up to 2022-23,” he said. House prices have seen OF ECONOMY ARE the upcoming federal election “New home building was sizeable reductions in a PRETTY SOLID is also delaying activity in the lifted to record levels in number of key markets, while market,” he said.

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WHAT A WEEK FOR WOOD! NEW HOUSING STYLES Kids under cover: this tiny timber house makes a very big di erence SINCE the 1950s, Australia’s Under Cover, 100% of the When it average free-standing house pro t of every home sold came to size has more than doubled, is directed to the charity’s specifying the yet the number of occupants work helping prevent youth LVL for the in the average home has homelessness. project the halved. Nest’d general manager team turned In fact, Australians are Kieran Callan explains how to Wesbeam building the second-biggest sales of the tiny house give Tall Timber free-standing houses in the back to the community: “A Building world behind the US at an child’s under-cover studio built Systems with average of 230.8 sq m. in the backyards and gardens the timber sourced from But one new Melbourne 1 & 2/ Child’s play… timber is Responsible business is proving that essential to the design of The Peak. 1 Wood-certi ed bigger is not always better, plantation while also tackling the big lives of young forests and processed in people.” issues of housing affordability, Western Australia. youth homelessness and Timber is Nest’d offers three home environmental sustainability. central to designs. At 32 sq m the top the design And Responsible Wood is of the range is The Peak. of The Peak playing its part to guarantee While also being the largest, and is used the sustainability of this new it offers sophisticated interior product with certi ed timber extensively. 2 planning including built- at the fore. Its structure in kitchen, seating areas, The idea began with of family homes actively helps comprises bed and bathroom with a a cubby house design prevent youth homelessness sustainably sourced LVL with contemporary exterior which competition held by Kids by easing the pressures on some metal external wall suits a range of lifestyles. cladding while the angle of Under Cover in 2017 which families. At only $139,000, it can the roof allows for optimal was won by international “Nest’d is the evolution be delivered  at-packed and photovoltaic performance. architects Grimshaw. From of this innovation. We are constructed in two weeks. The this collaboration Nest’d was delighted to be working with Natural timber nishes Peak is promoted as ideal for born – a new social enterprise world-leading architects within the interior are teenage retreats, granny  ats, which sells affordable and Grimshaw to deliver a enhanced by recessed lighting home of ces, yoga studios, sustainable prefabricated ‘tiny sustainable, stylish and and provide a welcoming Airbnb rentals or rst homes homes’. affordable compact home atmosphere while maximising for people otherwise priced Launched in 2018, by Kids which also invests in the the sense of space. out of the market.

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INDUSTRY NEWS Industry seeks $80m from ERF to realise many bene ts of trees THE peak national industry body has called on the federal government to remove barriers to forest industries Mission… fully participating in the expanding Emissions Reduction Fund Australia’s (ERF) and earmark $80 million plantation estate and incentivising speci cally for new projects farm forestry are with multiple bene ts, such prime examples as forest plantation and farm of carbon storage projects that forestry projects. deliver multiple In its submission to the bene ts. federal Treasury ahead of the constraints be removed to measures announced in the Hampton said. 2019-20 Budget, the Australian allow new trees to be planted plan to be funded. Forest Products Association “AFPA’s Budget submission in the right places, about $80 has requested $80 million “The plan also committed seeks an additional $40 million million in ERF funds could from the ERF be set aside to the creation of two new to provide long-term certainty generate the planting of some for carbon storage projects 40,000 ha of production trees National Institute for Forest and scale for the four centres, that deliver multiple bene ts a year over three years – Products Innovation centres, in and for the removal of the beyond carbon abatement including a signi cant uptake addition to the two successful matching cap on voluntary such as employment, of farm forestry that is proven existing centres in Mount industry funding contributions agricultural productivity and to deliver on-farm productivity Gambier in South Australia and for Forest and Wood Products biodiversity gains. gains,” AFPA CEO Ross Launceston in Tasmania,” Mr Australia.” Prioritising projects that Hampton said. deliver multiple bene ts “This would kick-start was a key recommendation the planting of the 400,000 in the Climate Change additional hectares of Authority’s April 2018 report plantation forest in Australia to the government, ‘Reaping over the next decade that the Rewards: Improving industry has identi ed is Farm Pro tability, Reducing urgently needed to meet Emissions and Conserving demand and allow our forest Natural Capital’. industries to continue to Expanding Australia’s provide tens of thousands of plantation estate and regional jobs,” Mr Hampton Find out more about incentivising farm forestry said. EWPAA certification. are prime examples of carbon Independent analysis storage projects that deliver commissioned by AFPA last The mark of multiple bene ts. As well year, found that the 400,000 safety, reliability as creating regional jobs, has and other measures and trust. strategic planting of new would cumulatively remove trees can reduce salinity, or store up to 115 mega improve water quality and tonnes of CO2-e by 2030 Product Education & Standards Research & Technical Market enhance habitat restoration/ (the Paris Agreement target Certification Training Development Development Promotion Maintenance revegetation (e.g. mine sites). year). This in turn will support Product Education & Standards Research & Technical Market Product the federalEducation government’s & Standards Research & Technical Market “It is estimated that,Certification should Training Development DevelopmentCertification PromotionTraining DevelopmentMaintenance Development Promotion Maintenance own commitment to plant one billion new production TO KICK-START trees over the next decade, PLANTINGS OF as announced in the National (07) 3250 3700 [email protected] Forest Industries Plan in 400,000 HA OF TREES ewp.asn.au OVER NEXT DECADE September last year. AFPA is also calling for other

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Australia Day award recognises dedication to forest management COMMENT IN THE FOREST A Labor vote and your labours in the forest industry are for naught! SO how was your Christmas- New Year? Trust you have returned refreshed and looking forward to a productive year – and making a pro t. I did manage to get up to Bris-Vegas for a few days to visit family. My sister had her second child in October, so rst visit from Aunty Cheryl. The baby’s name is Clare. Thought sis might have stretched to Cheryl – too old fashioned apparently! I also caught up with our editor Big Jimmy, although he didn’t extend an invitation to lunch at the upmarket Jelly sh Vote wisely… managed forests, forest jobs and new trees in the ground are at risk. Restaurant on the Brisbane River. Something about not park in the run up to state live in a rural community, vote TRUNK LINES being able to get a booking. I election in an attempt to Labor at your peril. live in eternal hope. shore up votes and green Also, if I may say so, current preferences in inner-city seats. Although some around NSW Forestry Minister Paul here have cautioned to steer And this done with Toole has been my pick of clear from commenting about absolutely no thought to forestry ministers across the politics, I feel compelled to the interests and welfare of country. At a time – as I have say something … with the local businesses, families said on numerous occasions state election here in New and towns that had been – when the industry seems to be paralysed on new South Wales due in March and sustainably managing these plantation establishment, a federal one possibly in May. forests for many, many years. minister Toole was able to And before then in 2002, I am in no doubt the With CHERYL FORREST secure $71 million from state having just signed off on the outcome of the election coffers to support the forest North Coast Regional Forest will have a real and possibly supplies from state forests industry. detrimental impact on all of us Agreement and with the ink are likely to be reduced by Of that amount, $24 trying to make a living in the only just dried on long-term 40%. Yes, 40%! million has gone straight to forest industry. log supply agreements, the Forestry Corporation to Premier Bob Carr transferred Again, as with previous I shouldn’t have to remind stimulate new plantation a great swathe of coastal, Labour Party forest closures, you. You will recall the the koala park proposal establishment. treachery of the then Labor blackbutt-dominated forest has nothing at all to do So there you have it … government in 2011 in to national park to buy green with science; it’s all about a vote in NSW for Labor in transferring the bulk of the preferences. pandering to green voters March is a vote for further productive red gum forest This time around the NSW in sea-change seats like forest industry contraction, around Deniliquin to national Labor Opposition is promising Ballina and Coffs Harbour and business closures, job losses a ‘Great Northern Koala Park’. and probably no new trees in I am told that the Forestry inner-Sydney locations such THE KOALA as Balmain, Leichhardt and the ground. So vote carefully PARK IDEA Corporation estimates if there my friends! is a change of government at Newtown. Catch you hopefully on a HAS NOTHING the upcoming election, and So if you rely on the forest brighter note next month. TO DO WITH incoming Labor implements industry in one shape or form SCIENCE its northern koala park and you supply goods and Cheers, proposal, hardwood log services to the industry, or Cheryl.

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TIMBER & FORESTRY E-NEWS | ISSUE 544 | January 31, 2018 15 HERITAGE NEW ZEALAND Native timber project breathes new life into Northland history FAMILY politics, a 120-year- lived among the Maori of old love story and modern- Matauri Bay, learned te reo day research on native wood and married Harata Tame in and how it can be harvested 1895. Harata died three years sustainably for commercial later at the age of 24 and is use, have converged in an now buried in the churchyard historic New Zealand church next to her mother. Samuel Marsden in Northland’s Matauri Bay. Mãori Anglican Grandfather McGee then The iconic Samuel Marsden Church… restored using timber married again. His rst union Mãori Anglican Church milled from was never openly discussed building is dedicated to the forest giant in his new family and his totara. the memory of Reverend living descendants had Samuel Marsden, whose Winters, a member of the Inc, Scion (New Zealand little information about his early missionary success can Whangaroa Pastorate, spoke Forest Research Institute connection to Harata. in part be attributed to chief with John about the church Limited) and Te Uru Rãkau. But this story did not end Ruatara who provided the here, thanks to an entirely oor. Her concern was that The steering group worked preacher a safe place to rest particleboard had been laid unexpected twist. Unknown to mill and nish the timber at Matauri. Marsden then in place of the native timber to Mr McGee, Harata’s and install the oor. sailed on to hold the rst oor which the church namesake from another of cial New Zealand church could not salvage during The McGee family’s bitter- branch of the Tame family, service at Rangihoua in the restorations. sweet connection with the Harata Toms, is a current Bay of Islands on Christmas church stretches back to the John was harvesting member of the Church’s Day 1814. tõtara on his farm as part of early 1890s and involves congregation. Whether by The nal step in the recent a study. Ttara Industry Pilot young love, the racial divide chance or divine intervention, renovation of the 123-year-old was a two-year assessment of the day, family politics and the families met only when building was a thanksgiving of whether a business case organisers came together to service held last Sunday for LEARNING existed for a new Northland plan the thanksgiving service a wooden oor made from ECONOMIC industry based on the – to the great delight of all tõtara (Podocarpus totara) sustainable management of RETURNS FROM involved. harvested on the Kaeo farm farmed tõtara. A small group TOTARA “This story typi es the way of John McGee. of mostly Northland-based that Northland communities Tõtara is a forest giant, with interests was driving the are still brought together and an unexpected reunion with a massive woody trunk and study. Current TIP partners bonded by the unique natural covered in thick, stringy bark. include the Northland Tõtara TIP unwittingly at the centre. resources of the region,” It can live for more than 1000 Working Group, Tane’s Tree Mr McGee’s grandfather, Scion’s general manager of years. Trust, Te Taitokerau Mãori also called John, was a marketing and partnership, In 2015, Melanie Chandler- Forestry Collective, Northland whaler and gum-digger who Arron Judson said.

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16 TIMBER & FORESTRY E-NEWS | ISSUE 544 | January 31, 2018 CERTIFICATION INVESTIGATION Chinese New Year: biosecurity alert CHINESE New Year – include requirements to celebrated on February 5 demonstrate that pest risks – is a busy time for travelling are mitigated through the and gift-giving, but some manufacturing process or items sent or brought to through approved treatments. Australia during this period For timber and timber pose a biosecurity risk and products, steps may be potentially carry pests and required to ensure the wood diseases. is low risk of having been Acting head of Biosecurity illegally logged. at the Department of Also, many exotic pests Agriculture and Water and insects can hitch a ride to Resources Marion Healy says Airport biosecurity operations... checking X-rays before manual inspection. Australia in timber, bamboo, items such as fruit, plants, wood-related products, and meat, eggs and herbs used The import of timber The import conditions set packaging and on cargo in traditional medicine could products and gifts also poses out in BICON, the federal containers. pose a risk and may not be a severe risk. government’s biosecurity Even products that appear permitted. It is the responsibility of import conditions database, outwardly to be clean may “While Chinese New Year importer s to ensure their harbour biosecurity risks gifts are brought or sent products meet import GOOD because many timber pests with good intentions, some conditions. Failure to do occur within wood and can INTENTIONS can carry pests or diseases so may result in delays, be very dif cult to detect in that could impact on our additional costs, and, in BUT GIFTS their egg or larval stage. industries, environment, some cases, the re-export or COULD CARRY Visit www.agriculture.gov. plant, animal and human destruction of the goods at DISEASES au/forestry/policies/illegal- health,” Ms Healy said. the importer’s expense. logging does big mean better? BETTER. FAST. DIFFERENT.

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Masking the legitimacy of timber exports from China ‘Greenwashing’ a $36bn industry Exracts of a report by Sixth Tone, a respected online publication that produces informed and insightful content on contemporary China.

THE pungent odor of formaldehyde lls the factory of Shandong Xingang Group in Linyi, a city in the Shandong province in southern China. Few employees wear masks, despite signs saying they are required. Throughout the hall lie boxes branded Legality issue… with tree-shaped logos, which a wood market in should mean that the wood China’s Zhejiang inside is certi ed by the province. international nonpro t Forest been produced under good eucalyptus cores, but they’re Germany-headquartered Stewardship Council and has labour conditions and is from not FSC-accredited,” a FSC is one of the world’s sustainable forests. company manager explained, most inuential certi ers of RISK OF BEING But like so much timber that standing in front of a box sustainable forestry, having CAUGHT BY EU passes through China, their sporting the FSC logo. approved more than 36,000 AUTHORITIES sourcing is unclear and likely “Everyone does it. We’re just enterprises and over 195 IS NEGLIGIBLE anything but sustainable. following suit because of the “These are poplar and market.” Cont P 19

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Managing changing landscapes CERTIFICATION INVESTIGATION

From P 18 million ha of forests. In 2016, 22.6% of global industrial roundwood was harvested in FSC-certi ed forests, according to the organisation. In those areas, management should abide by local laws, respect local communities, promote its workers’ wellbeing, and not harm the environment, among other principles. However, an investigation by Sixth Tone shows that, in China, the logo has become less a symbol of Big producer… China is the world’s largest exporter of manufactured boards, which include plywood. sustainability and more a tool for ‘greenwashing’, allowing is the biggest importer who are found in violation from FSC-certi ed sustainable illegally-harvested timber to and consumer of wood of its requirements will have forests and have been made avoid scrutiny and enter global products. More than 60% their credentials cancelled. in certi ed factories that have markets. of tropical logs on the global FSC is also looking at satis ed strict requirements market are imported to in areas such as labor and In 2018, Sixth Tone posed blockchain technology to China. Much tropical wood bene ts. as an importer to Europe, make it harder to falsify visiting nine different Chinese comes from species which credentials. A recent, large- But currently, when enterprises of varying sizes, environmentalists consider scale inspection in the shipments of illegally sourced seven of which talked openly at high risk for being logged Asia-Paci c region focusing wood arrive in Europe, their about supplying FSC logos illegally; assessments by the on charcoal and bamboo forged FSC certi cations help and certi cation even though United Nations Environment supply chains resulted in them pass customs. their goods don’t meet its Program and Interpol suggest 39 companies having their In 2013, the EU Timber standards. that 15-30% of timber traded certi cation terminated or Regulation, or EUTR, came globally has been illegally For the companies, the risk suspended. into force, prohibiting of being caught by European harvested – tropical countries, companies from placing Union authorities is negligible, this proportion could be as illegally-harvested timber and high as 50-90%. FORGED as neither regulators nor PAPERS HELP products on the EU market buyers bother to adequately “FSC has indeed and requiring the ability to check the authenticity of the discovered abuse of the THEM PASS trace such products back to certi cation they provide. logo,” Ma Lichao, China’s CUSTOMS their origins. Timber that does According to company FSC representative, told not meet this regulation is employees, European Sixth Tone. He said that the FSC has strict rules on deemed to have been illegally importers are aware of and organisation’s approach was the use of its trademarks, harvested, and operators even encourage such fraud. to train buyers on how to at least according to of cial putting it on the market can As the world’s make sure documentation is documents. Timber products be held nancially and even manufacturing hub, China reliable and that companies that use its logo should come criminally responsible.

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