Hot spot
A new pest for plantation forestry?
A tiny insect known locally as the
“shothole miner”, is emerging as a potentially
significant pest of eucalypts in Eucalyptus globulus
plantations in the Green Triangle Region (south east South
Australia and western Victoria). Charlma Phillips
reports ...
What's on
Biodiversity Project researchers are making impacts in scientific,
political and industrial arenas ...
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New centre of excellence in "Climate change and woodland and forest
health"
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National Forestry Masters Program underway
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European tour for Paul Nevill
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Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra conquers 2020 summit
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Report on sustainable building materials
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CRC for Forestry representatives attend entomology conferences
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Invitation to Veg Futures 2008
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Forest Practices Authority funding available for wildlife
students
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Forest genetics conference planned for Freemantle in 2009
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find out more!
What's been on
Old Forests, New Management 2008
 The
Old Forests, New Management conference, held in Hobart in
February, was a major milestone for the CRC for Forestry, not least
for the Biodiversity Project. With support from the
Australian Government's "Sir Mark Oliphant Conference Series", it
attracted 270 scientists, forestry representatives and
environmentalists from 20 countries. Read
more...
 What's so important
about holey trees?
The Forest Practices Authority (Tasmania) held a
successful workshop on the management of the hollows resource in
production forests. Sarah Munks has prepared a report ...
 Simon
meets parliament
Simon Grove (Forestry Tasmania) went to Canberra
in March to participate in the annual "Science Meets Parliament"
event. Read more
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 Midlands
revegetation workshop
Neil Davidson and his team (right) recently took
to the road to help residents of the Tasmanian midlands deal with
the severe eucalypt dieback in their region. Read more
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 Professor
Potts goes bush!
Brad Potts, leader of the CRC for Forestry
Project 4.2 - Biodiversity, went bush recently with a film crew,
managers and scientists from Forestry Tasmania (many of whom, such
as Simon Grove, Marie Yee and Tim Wardlaw are also in the CRC for
Forestry's Biodiversity Project). Read more
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Hedging your bets
Do you like hedges but suffer from allergies to
cypress, poplar, Pittosporum or privet? Why not try
making a eucalypt hedge? This beautiful example of a
Eucalyptus nitens hedge was spotted recently at Maydena,
Tasmania.
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