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Where to now for one of nation’s most troubled sectors?

This issuE • Industry comfortable with opening of native forests • PNG slams Australia’s sidestep on funding

Alone without a plan .. unresolved tension in the forest industry

Cry for leadership Strategy meeting fails to decide on a short or long-term action plan for timber industry The well attended meeting of unnamed stakeholders at the historic Chapter House in Flinders Lane on February 13 was convened “to discuss the current challenges facing the industry, review learnings from international jurisdictions and

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INDUSTRY NEWS

PNG industry slams Australia’s sidestep on funding support

‘A step in the wrong direction’

By JIM BOWDEN

A FEDERAL government decision to allocate $8 million to international bodies such as The Nature Conservancy and International Tropical Timber Organisation to help ensure timber is legally harvested has drawn sharp criticism from the PNG government and timber traders in Australia.

The general manager of the Australian Timber Importers Federation John Halkett said the decision was disappointing considering the Forestry Minister (Joe Ludwig) had not been attentive to the concerns raised by the Australia timber supply chain about the lack of support for the necessary effort required by the domestic industry.

He said he understood that the $12.1 million previously related to capacity-building projects in Indonesia and PNG under Stage 2 of the Asia Pacific Forestry Skills and Capacity Building Program that would have involved input from relevant Australian-based expertise was now unlikely to be allocated to projects.

“This essentially means that negligible tangible support will be provided to our near neighbours by Australian companies and technical experts,” Mr Halkett said.

“The Australian industry has been left to largely resource the understanding and implementation of the government’s illegal logging policy and legislation both domestically and regionally.

“I am really disappointed that the funding allocation to The Nature Conservation has resulted in so much apparent ill-will being generated at a time when the Australian industry is working hard with

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Improving our industry’s capacity to develop and maintain a skilled workforce ............................

John Halkett .. Australian industry has been left to largely resource the government’s illegal logging policy.

Bob Tate .. The Australian government has placed the PNG forest products industry in an untenable position.

its suppliers in PNG and elsewhere to ensure that both exports and imports are able to meet the requirements of the government’s illegal logging legislation.

“It’s a step in the wrong direction.”

However, Mr Halkett was quick to add that he was pleased at the current engagement with DAFF officials during the present exercise to develop the regulations to the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act. In particular, he identified the head of the forestry branch Paul

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Tension between forest growers and processors over log pricing From Page 1

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Disappointingly, the participants did not establish a common position on the primary challenges and opportunities that industry should be jointly progressing through representative bodies and associations, nor did it reach agreement on either short or long-term action plans for the industry.

There was an unresolved tension between those who believe that market forces will prevail and those who see industry collaboration, in conjunction with government support, as the way to accelerate change and attain viability within the sector.

Facilitator was high-profile industry consultant Dennis Mutton, who was previously involved in establishing an industry accord that ultimately led to the formation of the National Association of Forest Industries.

Talks that centred on the

leadership needed to drive innovation and change in the industry were timely in view of the likely announcement this week of the new CEO of the Australian Forest Products Association.

The meeting was held under the ‘Chatham House Rule’, a core principle that governs the confidentiality of the source of information received at a meeting.

It was designed to promote an open conversation between industry executives at a personal level rather than from a sector or company-specific perspective.

Attendees expressed a wide range of opinions and the broader industry’s profitability and economic sustainability over coming years.

Some attendees felt that the current circumstances are not as dire as portrayed by some observers and that combined market forces will continue to

create globally cost competitive supply chains to match market demands whether sourced domestically or imported.

There was some discussion on the current tension between forest growers and processors about log pricing in a market where housing construction is approaching a 13-year low.

Others noted that long-term demand for building materials was strong due to population growth, although there was a trend toward apartments that could impact on traditional timber products.

Despite the long-term prospects, the meeting noted that the area of commercial estate planted for sawlog production has not increased in the past 20 years, which has the potential to constrain future investment and viability of the processing sector.

It was suggested that industry should view itself as integrated value chains from resource

There was support for initiatives that may stimulate market demand through improved mechanisms to finance new house construction

to market and that individual value chains compete in the market place. This requires improved collaboration and a common language between individual participants in each value chain.

The importance of markets for non-sawlog products was highlighted as the value chains must have access to domestic and/or export markets for pulpwood and mill residues – whether that is traditional reconstituted products, such as pulp, paper and panel board, new bio-materials or bio-energy.

The long-term economic viability of some existing regions is potentially under threat because they do not have a ready market for these residue products.

In a discussion of the key market drivers, it was agreed that the current exchange rate, the collapse of North American and European housing markets and growth of the Vietnamese woodchip sector have strongly impacted on Australian growers and processors.

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The way forward for industry FACILITATOR at the Melbourne strategy meeting Dennis Mutton has offered the following actions for industry to move forward: • Developing a leadership team to help drive innovation and change in the industry.

• Getting all peak industry groups working together ensuring inclusion of all key parts of the value chain.

• Getting collaboration back on the agenda including the parties where supply chain tension exists.

• Developing a short and medium term action plan to

stabilise the industry while doing the inspirational thinking on future directions.

• Influencing policy makers at both state and national level. This requires a focused, succinct and compelling value proposition that attracts interests of both major parties.

• Looking at innovative ways to encourage the sustainable growth of the forest asset in the right places such as farm forestry, carbon pricing, cocropping, regional cooperatives, off take agreements, integrated utilisation.

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Dennis Muttton .. 10-point plan for industry.

• Reviewing priorities of R&D to include new generation processing around manufacturing, value add and novel technology.

• Building credibility of the industry with environmental organisations, broader community, decision makers and funders.

• Leveraging existing government initiatives for the benefit of the industry.

• Make forestry and forest products a sunrise not a sunset industry (‘one vision, one strategy’)

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Harvesting timber on ‘sensitive land’ a load of hooey

Industry comfortable with opening of sustainable, productive forests

By JIM BOWDEN

OH, for an understanding forest reporter in the city-based media.

According to an environmental reporter’s story, the opening of 1.2 million ha of native forest by the Queensland government “in environmentally sensitive land” will see timber felled in prime conservation areas earmarked for national parks.

The story was based on a supposed leaked email between departmental heads that showed Forestry Minister John McVeigh had in January signed off on the release of the native forests for logging.

It’s funny – or is it? – that green groups are the first to receive these leaks (easily) when the forest industry is the subject.

The story went on to say that

Rod McInnes .. keeping outside of world heritage areas.

John McVeigh .. new 25-year contracts for cypress sawmills.

Larissa Waters .. trashing invaluable habiat for wildlife.

the proposed logging will be conducted without Queensland

Parks and Wildlife Service approval for codes or harvest

plans.

It’s just a load of old hooey.

And how’s this heading from another metropolitan journal?

‘Premier Campbell Newman opens up logging destruction in

‘sustainable practices mean harvesting in those native forests is the equivalent of removing a few selected trees in an area the size of Suncorp Stadium’ – Rod McInnes

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industry news

Voting period extended for growers in New Zealand forests referendum POLLS in the New Zealand ‘forest voice’ referendum will be open until March 29 – a week longer than originally intended.

The organiser, the Forest Growers Levy Trust, says this will make voting more convenient for the many forest growers who live in districts where on-line voting is not possible, because of difficulties with internet access.

Trust chair Geoff Thompson says that if the referendum is successful, a small levy on harvested logs will be used to fund work that benefits all forest owners.

“Forestry is one of the few primary industries not to have a levy to fund research, bio-security surveillance, communications, advocacy and product promotion,” Mr Thompson said.

“For an industry with more than 10,000 growers – the country’s third largest export earner – this is long overdue.

“Growers who vote ‘yes’ will be voting to create a more profitable, better coordinated and fairer industry. I strongly urge every eligible grower to have their say and register to vote.”

The referendum gives each

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Voting ‘yes’ will be voting to create a more profitable, better coordinated and fairer forest industry.

owner of a qualified forest one vote that will be counted two ways, by head and by area of forest. A dual majority is needed for the referendum to succeed.

Voters must own or represent the owner of a ‘Qualifying forest’. This is a plantation which has a stand or stands of trees 10 or more years in age (planted before March 1, 2003), totalling at least 4 ha in area.

This definition applies to all species grown for eventual harvest including wildings

Geoff Thompson .. levy for research long overdue.

The referendum gives each owner of a qualified forest one vote that will be counted two ways, by head and by area of forest.

and regeneration of a planted stand of trees. Christmas trees and trees grown for domestic firewood are not included.

“The 10-year cut-off ensures the right to vote is limited to those who are likely to pay the levy during its six-year life,” Mr Thompson said.

Voter registration and voting is now open. Potential voters need to go to the Forest Voice website or phone the organisers to check their eligibility and register as a voter.

Votes may be cast on the Forest Voice website or in the traditional way, on a ballot paper which may be posted or faxed.

For details, visit www. forestvoice.org.nz or phone 0800 500 168.

The referendum proposal was put together by the Forest Owners Association and Farm Forestry Association. It has also been endorsed by the Forest Industry Contractors Association.

The proposal and the referendum itself is now the responsibility of the Forest Growers Levy Trust, which is independent of the two associations.

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Learning from the good and the bad From Page 3

It was felt that a short term action agenda for the processing sector could be developed to generate new revenues sources and markets for processing by-products.

Based on the input of several international guest speakers, there was recognition that the Australian sector could learn from the good and bad experiences of other jurisdictions.

For example, in Canada there has been a government and industry commitment to collaborative innovation to deal with the structural issues that their sector was facing and this has led to significant changes in the way the industry operates and the product range delivered.

There was also support for initiatives that may stimulate market demand through improved mechanisms to finance new house construction such as personal superannuation or through building alliances with environmental organisations and creating agreement on the environmental credentials of wood products compared to other materials.

One of the issues explored in the day’s discussions was the relatively low level of collaborative activity being undertaken for the collective benefit and growth of the industry.

It is understood that there are a number of joint initiatives under development but there was no willingness to put these out for broader discussion even with the protection of the Chatham House Rule.

The disappointing level of leadership dialogue and consensus established on the day was considered a consequence of the format of the strategy conversation, the large number of participants and the poor meeting room acoustics.

Concerns over treated timber failures PARTICIPANTS in Timber Queensland’s recent treaters’ forum in Brisbane expressed concern over increasing evidence from the market that a range of treated products are failing prematurely.

A range of reasons for why this is happening were discussed, one of which may be inadequate penetration/ retention of treatment systems.

Timber Queensland CEO Rod McInnes said the meeting recognised that these failures were not satisfying the implicit and explicit durability requirements of building regulations.

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“This is a problem that can’t and won’t be ignored and it’s got to be addressed immediately,” he said.

A working group, comprising Rod McInnes and Colin MacKenzie from TQ, Geoff Stringer from Hyne and Greg Jensen from Lonza, is developing a plan to address both current retention/ penetration issues and broader concerns with AS 1604 for submission to the standards TM-006 committee and Forest and Wood Products Australia.

TPAA president Phil Burke and national secretary Doug Howick sat in on the meeting as guest observers.

The TPAA council meeting the same day was held at the offices of the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia.

Major issues the council’s agenda included the TPAA market awareness program, membership, publications, standards, national register of treatment plants and the EPA NSW inspection campaign.

Both meetings were addressed

by Dr Ronald Clawson, R&D manager with Kop-Coat’s laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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ENGINEERED WOOD

Engineered plywood big player in construction of Perth sports arena Hoop pine ‘pieces’ fit perfectly into puzzle design

THE Perth Arena has been lauded as the new architectural icon in Western Australia and a sports venue pacesetter for the nation.

The building has been designed as a landmark structure with an internationally recognisable and innovative design based on the Eternity Puzzle and inspired by the 12-sided Round House in Fremantle, which is one of Perth’s oldest buildings.

But there’s nothing puzzling about why natural-grained engineered wood dominates the arena.

“We’ve had a lot of experience, good experience with Queensland hoop pine plywood and we used it a lot this time around,” said architect Stephen Davies of ARM Architecture in Melbourne which was awarded the project in a joint venture with Cameron Chisholm and Nicol.

“The same plywood was our choice for the Melbourne Recital Centre which was basically a completely lined plywood box construction.”

The Perth Arena, which will hold up to 13,910 spectators for tennis events, 14,846 for basketball and a maximum of 15,500 for concerts, was the biggest project ever undertaken

by Brisbane-based Austral Plywood at Tennyson.

“We supplied close to 15,000 sheets of 19 mm AC interior plywood over a 12-month manufacturing period,” sales manager Gary Holmes said.

“The Perth Area used plywood everywhere – for walls, bulkheads, panelling, ceilings and counters. We were required to produce 400 plywood sheets a week to meet construction deadlines..

“We met the specifications on our factory floor and delivered and not once were we required

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blue and natural honeycombe stains.”

The Perth Arena .. plywood everywhere.

to visit the work site.”

Austral’s premium AC (interior) hoop pine plywood, manufactured to AS 2270, is used in non-structural, interior applications where a high quality aesthetic finish is required.

Typical applications include internal wall panelling, furniture and fitments, interior door skins and ceiling linings. It all certainly fitted together like a gigantic puzzle.

“Hoop pine plywood has become very popular in commercial applications where the natural warmth of hoop

pine is combined with the acoustic properties of panel perforations,” Mr Holmes said.

Sizes range from 2400 x 1200 and 2700 x1200 mm in thicknesses of 6.5 mm, 9, 12.5 and 16 and the plywood carries a Super E0 emissions rating.

Stephen Davies said the plywood also “finished well.”

He said the architects had worked with a coating systems manufacturer who achieved the exact finishes and colouring required for the plywood.

“The natural hoop pine grain shows through in an array of panels coloured in purple, red,

Located on the northern fringe of Perth’s CBD, the stadium, opened in November last year, is expected to bring more than 250,000 people into the city link precinct each year and is the catalyst for the renewal of the whole precinct, re-establishing a connection between Perth’s commercial and entertainment hubs.

The venue features a retractable roof that can open and close in 14 minutes allowing natural light to flood the centre court, stateof-the-art acoustics, function spaces, corporate hospitality suites, cafes and a basement car park. The stadium has a very flexible design, allowing for crowds of up to 12,000 in concert mode and up to 15,500 in tennis mode. The stadium can accommodate shows with a centre stage or end stage and performances in the round such as motocross, equestrian and ice shows.

It also features a range of sustainability initiatives, including one of the largest PV (solar) arrays installed on any building in Western Australia.

Natural-grained engineered wood dominates the Perth sports complex.

‘We’ve had a lot of experience, good experience with Queensland hoop pine plywood and we used it a lot this time around’ – architect Stephen Davies

Plywood at Austral is produced from100% plantation grown hoop pine sourced from HQPlantations in southeast Queensland. Products have chain of custody certification under Australian Standards AS 4707:2006, which is linked to the Australian Forestry Standard, and was awarded through an independently audited process carried out by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Report asks: Did Gunns trade while it was insolvent?

AN explosive report has questioned whether the Tasmanian timber company Gunns traded while insolvent before its collapse last year.

Administrator PPB Advisory was appointed last September when Gunns could not pay its debts.

It has now released a report to creditors saying the company may have had problems six months before the collapse, but further investigation is needed.

In an ABC news story, PPB said it had found three instances where funds from plantation growers or other companies might have been used to keep Gunns running.

PPB Advisory emphasised the conclusions were from preliminary investigations which had been limited by time and the amount of information in Gunns’s books.

It says further investigation is needed to conclude whether they constitute a breach of directors’ duties.

Former directors are being contacted for a response.

The administrators’ report also says unsecured creditors are unlikely to recover their debts.

Banks are also unlikely to see all of the $440 million owed to them by the failed company.

A report to creditors says the downturn in the woodchip industry contributed to the collapse of Gunns in September.

PPB recommends Gunns’ creditors vote to liquidate the company, a move which will cost about $2 million in fees.

The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association does not hold out much hope for plantation farmers who are unsecured creditors.

Chief executive Jan Davis has told ABC local radio that farmers had concerns about plantation payments for months before Gunns collapsed.

“That was an alarm bell that was rung and alerts were given and quite clearly we believe that there needs to be more investigation so that if there were breaches of the law, which trading while insolvent clearly is, those who were responsible are brought to book,” Ms Davis said.

“What is difficult for us is unravelling the situation between the farmers who own the land, the investors who have some interest in the trees and the receivers and the administrators with the least possible plan and the best possible outcome.”

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Decision must be re-negotiated to allow input by PNG government and industry From Page 2

McNamara as being willing to listen to the concerns raised by timber product importers and their agent brokers and freight forwarders.

“Our current interaction with federal officials has moved up a gear and this has helped allay some of the concerns raised by importers earlier on in the process.”

Meanwhile, a source close to the PNG forestry ministry said the government “had been affronted” by Australia’s unilateral decision to promote legal trade of PNG timber products through The Nature Conservancy – without consultation with the PNG government or timber producers.

TNC is a known advocate of WWF forestry policies including the forestry standards developed by the Forest Stewardship Council. WWF policies favour conservation and the establishment of large protected areas over sustainable forest management, a system which supports the needs of developing nations by allowing for selective logging in forested areas.

TNC, founded in 1951, is a nonprofit charitable organisation based in the US. “Its expertise is in land and water production,” the PNG official said. “Its value in forestry is unclear.

Busy industry .. Golden Pine plantations at Bulolo, PNG.

“So why has the Australian government opted for the TNC of USA to push its anti-logging agenda in PNG? Is it nervous about its own credibility or is there a hidden agenda?

“How can the Australian government be so colonial?

Is Canberra aware that PNG became an independent nation in 1975, 37 years ago?”

According to industry sources, the PNG government has pointed out it did not ask for these programs and has cited disappointment over a lack of consultation and collaboration in the formulation of the PNG

project.

Australia already has in place a $900,000 program to improve forest management in PNG, and other aid programs to the tune of $10 million have already been allocated to the forestry sector in the country.

Moreover, recent data is now showing emissions from deforestation have been overstated. PNG’s total annual carbon emissions from deforestation are just 0.15% of total forest carbon stocks.

Given this, the importance of the program’s proposition to reduce deforestation-

‘We’ve made a lot of progress in legality and in independent auditing up here, but these NGOs are stuffing it up and the Australian government has to shoulder the blame’ – Bob Tate

related carbon emissions is questionable.

Speaking from Port Moresby, the executive officer of the PNG Forest Industries Association Bob Tate told T&F enews non-participation in the TNC-funded program by the PNG government and timber producers had placed the industry in an untenable position.

“This decision by the Australian government must be re-negotiated to allow the participation of the PNG government and input by the industry,” he said.

“We’ve made a lot of progress in legality and in independent auditing up here, but these NGOs are stuffing it up and the Australian government has to shoulder the blame.”

Mr Tate said the PNG timber industry had been buoyed by a strong economy and sawmills and plywood factories were doing well.

He said a lot of sawn timber destined for export was being re-directed to building activity in rapidly-expanding mining projects with demand growing for housing, warehousing and office buildings.

“Sawmillers have has been flat out over the past 12 months and we hope this lasts,” Mr Tate said.

“Log exports are holding at around 3 million cub m a year, which has been the number for the last 10 years or so.”

Forest protest economic sabotage: Gutwein A FOREST protest in Tasmania’s Central Highlands is costing contractors about $20,000 a day, according to the state Liberals.

Opposition forestry spokesman Peter Gutwein described the protest, by up to 10 members of environmental group Still Wild, Still Threatened, as a disgraceful

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act of economic sabotage.

The group is protesting in Butlers Gorge, near Lake King William.

Mr Gutwein said up to 20 workers were being denied access to their lawful jobs.

“Rather than the weasel words offered, if Labor was serious about protecting jobs and

investment, then it would act to stop this disgraceful act of economic sabotage,” Mr Gutwein said.

“What this shows is that no matter how much Labor tries to appease the Greens, it will never be enough. This so-called peace deal won’t bring ‘peace’.

The protests won’t stop.”

The protesters claim that a small number of coupes were being harvested in areas nominated for protection under the forestry peace deal.

However, deputy premier Bryan Green said the coupes were part of existing harvesting operations to meet contractual wood supply requirements.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Renewal of permits guarantees longer contracts for companies From Page 4

Queensland native forests’.

Timber&Forestry enews reported late last year that 1.2 million ha of native forests in Queensland would be re-opened for sustainable, productive harvesting.

“The opening up of native Queensland forests for the timber industry will not lead to mass logging operations,” Timber Queensland CEO Rod McInnes said.

Mr McInnes said the industry was more than comfortable with the release of the native forests for sustainable timber harvesting, after the forests were removed from the industry’s reach in 1999.

He said the forestry industry would not be logging in sensitive environments, or those

Sustainable .. native forest regrowth on Queensland’s Fraser Coast.

in central and north Queensland protecting by world heritage status.

He said the industry was bound by independent third-party auditing of which specific areas could be harvested, and even given access, there would be no clear-felling of timber, which had long been a hallmark of the

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industry in southern Australia.

“In Queensland, we simply don’t clear fell forests. We do everything according to how sensitive the local environment is and of the total 1.2 million ha, the most we would be sustainably harvesting would be about 30,00 ha a year,” Mr McInnes said.

“Even then, our sustainable practices mean harvesting in those native forests is the equivalent of removing a few selected trees in an area the size of Suncorp Stadium.”

Mr McVeigh had also offered new, 25-year contracts to harvest cypress forests in southern and central Queensland.

The minister said the renewal of the sales permits was essentially guaranteeing a longer contract for companies which already had an allocated licence to log such areas.

As expected, the Greens have attacked the decision to re-open native forests to the industry.

Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters says the move will trash invaluable habitat for native wildlife.

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BUILDING WITH WOOD

Country church blessed with timber Town congregation worships God and trees

By MILES NOLLER

IN the tiny Queensland town of Kumbia, many would say that God grew the trees, and to use those trees to build a house of worship was right and proper.

And so, in the late 1950s when a Lutheran congregation decided it needed a larger church, it had no hesitation in selecting a variety of timbers for its new building.

The congregation had used a small timber church located down a back road for almost half a century.

For many years the congregation had also owned five quarter-acre allotments in the town of Kumbia, located between Kingaroy and the Bunya Mountains in the state’s South Burnett region.

The site was bordered by numerous hoop pines, a few bunya pines, and a couple of Moreton Bay figs. It was a pleasant site, and in keeping with the timber theme, a pleasant wooden church was constructed.

But the real godly treasures are inside.

The vaulted roof is supported by hoop pine beams and trusses. The ceiling is cypress pine, the flooring is spotted gum, and the walls are lined with narrow leaf ironbark.

The external chamfer boards are also likely to have been ironbark.

There was a time when the red soil ridge country on which Kumbia is built could have supplied much of this timber – dry temperate rainforest species on the ridges, and ironbark and various gums on the lower slopes. But after 50 years of farming, this timber had disappeared.

Loggers had cut out much of the hoop pine from the Bunya Mountains, and the remainder had been locked up in national parks. However, this species was available from plantations

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Hoop pine arches support a ceiling of cypress pine at the Lutheran church in Kumbia.

at Yarraman to the east.

Kingaroy sawmiller Hayden Shire & Co supplied much of the timber while the cypress was drawn from a mill at Chinchilla, west of Kumbia on the northern Darling Downs.

Shining a light on timber .. the church’s arched design in wood is carried through to the chancel.

But the timber inside the building that inspires the most is the North Queensland hardwood northern silky oak (Cardwellia sublimisa) that has been used for the furnishings, the alter, alter rail, pulpit, baptism font, lectern, flower vase stands, hymn board, and the decorative corbel pieces under the ends of each hoop pine beam.

This work was done by the late Eddie Mackenzie, who grew up in the Kumbia congregation but who had moved to Southport on the Gold Coast where he operated a cabinet-making business.

An inspiration .. tall trees bordering the rear of the church yard.

But the timber inside the building that inspires the most is the northern silky oak

The church was dedicated in 1959, and every Sunday since, this timber has proven a blessing for all who attend.

Indeed, should you ask any of the parishioners, they’d agree that God likes timber.

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EVENTS

Back to basics for World Forestry Day celebrations in Queensland

By STEPHEN WALKER Chairman, Qld division Institute of Foresters

GREAT ‘back to basics’ events lined up for World Forestry Day in Queensland on March 21 are going to help reaffirm why foresters are associated with and get excited about this great profession.

The day will be celebrated helping revegetate/restore a section of creek bank on Brisbane’s Ithaca Creek at Bardon, supported by community-based group SOWN. This will be followed by a free open day at Gympie Woodworks Museum on March 23, supported by not-for-profit group PFSQ and HQPlantations.

Initiated in 1971 by the European Confederation of Agriculture, and then adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Forestry Day is celebrated worldwide every year on March 21, the autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.

Forestry, more than any other branch of agriculture, is an activity which needs to be

American visitors examine a 600-year-old slice of kauri pine at the the Woodworks Museum in Gympie.

brought before the public given the long-time scale involved in forest management compared to the increasingly rapid pace we have come to accept as normal in so many other activities.

As members of the Institute of Foresters of Australia, we all need to rise to the challenge on World Forestry Day and do our bit to educate others (and occasionally re-educate ourselves) about the importance of forests to the communities we live and work in.

The events planned this year

for Brisbane and Gympie will cost nothing other than a bit of your time and a desire to get involved.

We are also planning a low key event in North Queensland with further details available soon.

Timetable: Event 1: Collaborative IFASOWN revegetation/restoration planting along Ithaca Creek - Dawn Street, Bardon (near where Coopers Camp Road crosses Ithaca Creek), March 21.

Time: 8-8.30 am start with an

expected finish around 1111.30am Catering: Morning tea provided (billy tea, coffee, home made pikelets and freshly baked sausage rolls).

Event 2: Free open day Saturday, March 23, at Woodworks Museum, Gympie, corner of Fraser Road and the Bruce Highway, just north of Gympie.

Time: 10am-4pm (normal opening hours).

Catering: Free sausage sizzle (gold coin donation) Supporter/sponsor: PFSQ - Private Forestry Service Queensland The museum, opened more than 30 years ago, continues to educate and excite visitors about forestry and the history and romance of the timber industry. The sawmill will be operating during the celebration and there will be woodworking and blacksmithing displays sponsored by HQPlantations.

To assist with catering and logistics, please RSVP by Friday, March 8, to Gary Bacon (gary-bacon@bigpond.com) or Stephen Walker (stwalker@ bigpond.net.au).

SFM to manage plantation estate in green triangle FOREST management company SFM Forest Products has completed contract negotiations to manage the Portland Treefarm Project in the Green Triangle, a plantation region in southwest Victoria and southeast South Australia.

The project is a joint venture between Mitsui Bussan Woodchip Oceania Pty Ltd, Nippon Paper Resources Australia Pty Ltd and Australian Afforestation Pty Ltd – Toyota.

The estate covers properties in the Green Triangle region that are planted with Eucalyptus globulus (bluegum) and utilised

for woodchips which are exported to Japan to produce high quality paper.

The Portland Treefarm Project resource encompasses just under 1900 ha and includes 15 properties.

SFM’s managing director Andrew Morgan said with estates changing ownership, diverse market options and an industry focus on forest certification in the region was a key area of growth for the company.

“SFM is excited to be working with Mitsui, Nippon and their partner on this project and looks

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Andrew Morgan .. substantial contribution to the community.

forward to developing a long and productive relationship

with all involved,” Mr Morgan said.

“SFM is also pleased to announce that it has opened an office in Mount Gambier providing quality independent forest management and forest consulting services to private forest owners and corporate entities in the region.

“The new office and new project represents a longterm commitment to the region from SFM, and we look forward to making a substantial contribution to the community in years to come.”

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CLT a hot favourite building material after completing fire resistance tests New product iCLT developed from beetle-killed pine CROSS-laminated timber, a new building material revolutionising multi-storey construction in Australia and around the world has stood up well in fire resistance tests.

Tests performed in Canada by the National Research Council and FPInnovations proved that even without gypsum board protection and under full loading conditions, CLT achieved fire resistance of close to three hours.

A relatively new building system, CLT is designed and produced in a factory environment. For the timberbased product, panels are typically manufactured with three, five or seven plies which are glued together with the grain perpendicular to the previous layer.

The material was used by Lend Lease in the construction of the world’s tallest timber apartment building, Forte, opened recently at Victoria Harbour in Melbourne.

Lend Lease says CLT delivered a building with a similar structural strength to traditionally used concrete and steel while reducing the building’s CO2 emissions by a projected 1400 tonnes – largely due to its thermal performance and internal capture of carbon – and offered a strong, solid, ‘warmer’ and more natural living experience for occupants.

The company also says CLT panels are relatively easy and clean to use in construction and its use enabled Forte to be built 30% faster than would have been the case using conventional materials while minimising the need for materials to be stored on-site.

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improving when more plies and gypsum board protection are used.

Given the likelihood of increasing levels of use of CLT, along with traditional fire concerns surrounding use of timber in multi-storey buildings, these results are significant.

Lend Lease, for example, says it now expects to build 30 to 50% of its apartment building pipeline using the material.

Hot building material .. CLT panels have been used in eight full-scale experiments to obtain fire resistance ratings

Given the relative newness of CLT and its status as a timber-based product with high potential for use in multistorey construction, research to understand its behaviour as a structural system in general and with regard to fire in particular is essential.

Toward this end, NRC researchers conducted eight full-scale experiments to obtain fire resistance ratings for a number of CLT panels and to obtain data on other factors.

The researchers say it is necessary to understand both charring rates (the rate at which wood forms a thick char layer as it burns, insulating and protecting wood underneath from elevated temperatures) as well as a number of other factors influencing the performance of CLT in fire, including types of adhesives

Meanwhile, the first US crosslaminated timber symposium was held in Seattle, Washington last week.

The three-day event, hosted by WoodWorks, explained how to design and build CLT projects according to the International Building Code. There were two symposium tracks, one for designers and contractors and another for engineers.

CLT achieved fire resistance of close to three hours.

used between plies, number of plies (the thickness of the panel), the joint configuration, protection methods used and the type of fire exposure.

Overall, the tests demonstrated that CLT can achieve significant fire resistance that is close to three hours, with fire resistance

The tests demonstrated that CLT can achieve significant fire resistance that is close to three hours, with fire resistance improving when more plies and gypsum board protection is used

Currently, 80% of the world’s CLT is produced in Austria, but it has the potential to sweep the US because of its huge supply of beetle kill pine.

The mountain pine beetle has swept southwestern US, leaving behind a great deal of this dead wood (especially in Colorado).

Researchers at the University of Utah are working to create CLT from this material, called iCLT. This would make it even more sustainable (since it isn’t using raw material) and could make the US a leader in CLT manufacturing.

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THE ENVIRONMENT

Australia’s first rainforest research ‘supersite’ now open for business Long-term monitoring of key Australian ecosystems FOLLOWING three years of research and planning, CSIRO and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network have opened Australia’s first largescale rainforest research plot.

The plot, which is located at Robson Creek on the Atherton Tableland near Cairns, will allow scientists to monitor the rainforest over the long term and answer questions about the health of this unique Australian environment and any impacts that might arise from climate change.

“In preparing the plot for research, we established baseline data by identifying, mapping and measuring every tree that was greater than 10 cm in diameter so we can continue to monitor them.

“We censused over 23,000 stems from 212 different species and there is estimated to be more than 400 plant species represented on the plot,” Matt Bradford, a field botanist who manages the Robson Creek site for the CSIRO, said.

“It’s been a huge effort, but it’s a great place to be working.

There’s such a diversity of life and some of the trees on site are well over a thousand years

CSIRO’s Matt Bradford admires a slow-growing Gossia shepherdii (lignum) on the Robson Creek rainforest plot, which he estimates is close to 1000 years old.

old.”

TERN and CSIRO are now inviting scientists from Australia and across the world to undertake research at the Robson Creek site, which is the largest rainforest plot in Australia.

“Already there are studies under way involving CSIRO and four Australian universities looking at the diversity of plants, birds, animals and insects and the

dynamics of how things like water, carbon and gases move through the ecosystem,” Mr Bradford said.

A state of the art flux measuring tower, part of TERN’s OzFlux network, will be installed on the site in coming months that will monitor gas exchange between the forest and the atmosphere, allowing observations of how climate change might affect this ecosystem.

The supersites provide a unique opportunity for scientists to answer questions about species distribution, the potential for carbon storage and exchange and the impacts of a changing climate

The Robson Creek plot forms part of the Far North Queensland Rainforest Supersite, which carries out research on the rainforests of the world heritage wet tropics region. The rainforest supersite is one of 10 research ‘supersites’ that make up the Australian Supersite Network established by TERN. These supersites are enabling long-term monitoring of key Australian ecosystems and provide a unique opportunity for scientists to answer questions about species distribution, the potential for carbon storage and exchange, and the impacts of a changing climate.

“We envisage that the Robson Creek plot will quickly become an important part of the global forest plot network that will allow for comparisons with other tropical forests and contribute to our understanding of how the world’s forests will adapt to any effects of climate change,” Mr Bradford said.

TERN is supported by the federal government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Super Science Initiative.

Opportunity: new engineered product

Project seeks access to on-going timber resource ThIs engineered product is manufactured from small diameter treated true round plantation logs that would normally be chipped or destroyed. Resource cost is minimal.

The production system is low capital cost and can be set up in a minimum of time and at a minimum of cost. Compared with current systems such as LVL, sawn timber etc. this product has unrivalled versatility, fire resistance, projected longevity and sustainability.

This product has the ability to lower the costs of floor and wall framing in modern homes, as well as being ideal for low-cost housing The entire buildings can be erected on site using unskilled labour.

The product has undergone comprehensive testing at the engineering faculty of the University of Technology Sydney under the guidance of internationally renowned timber engineer Prof. Keith Crews.

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The project is keen to establish a plant near a guaranteed resource.

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on the road

Eco-driving in the Outlander

Mitsubishi’s safety-plus SUV keeps score on fuel A SMOOTH, pleasant journey down to the ‘red cedar’ valley of Nambucca by way of the Pacific Highway and a Mitsubishi Outlander LS 2WD seemed a great way to drive into 2013.

The ‘cool silver’ petrol CVT transmission version delivered the crew of four firstly to Taylor’s Arms – almost 500 km from Brisbane and home of The Pub With No Beer – in complete comfort thanks to the seat configuration.

The 2WD is a five-seater, but provides a number of seating patterns or a long luggage space with flat floor. The large rear cargo area offered plenty of space which could be increased when the 60/40 split rear seats were folded down.

The cutting of Australian red cedar started in the Nambucca Valley around 1842 and the first house was built in 1867 when about 50 people had settled in the valley to cut cedar or raise corn.

A counter lunch at the Taylor’s Arms pub reminded us that country music singer Gordon Parsons wrote the song The Pub With No Beer here. In the 1940s he was working as a cedar getter and on a very hot day he came down for a beer. But the locals had drunk the whole monthly war-time quota. Parsons passed on the song to Slim Dusty who made it famous.

The Mitsubishi Outlander comes in three variants – the entry-level ES, the mid-range LS and the luxury Aspire – and is has a choice of petrol and diesel engines with a diesel six-speed automatic model introduced to the Outlander range for the first time.

Entry level LS models feature the same appointments as the previous model, including air-conditioning (climate control in four-wheel drive

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transmission as standard. A Mitsubishi Outlander .. comfort and eco-driving for fuel efficiency.

variants), upgraded electric window systems, remotecontrol locking, steering wheel mounted audio and cruise controls, two-speed/variabledelay intermittent wipers and a USB music interface port.

The Outlander is equipped with ECO-Drive, an eco-friendly driving system that notifies drivers when they are driving at maximum efficiency. Turning on the ECO mode gives fuel efficiency and energy-saving control across the engine, aircon and four-wheel drive systems.

Driving information from the ECO Drive mode is reviewed for each designated time period and a gauge is displayed using five leaves. This encourages the driver to learn and then adopt an environmentallyfriendly driving style to achieve

a ‘high’ score. This ECO score is displayed every three minutes during driving with a total score displayed for the time from ignition start to when it is turned off.

The system also displays the status of environmentallyfriendly driving in a bar graph, allowing drivers to understand the level of ‘eco-driving’ in real time.

The LS 2WD employs the same 125kW (at 6000 rpm), 2.4-litre unit fitted to 4WD four-cylinder Outlanders. But it is 65 kg lighter and returns better fuel economy with a bigger 63-litre fuel tank (4WDs get 60 litres).

The CVT auto is smooth and helps return better economy than the manual – 9L/100km vs 9.2L/100km).

The new variant is fitted with a five-speed manual

continuously variable automatic transmission – including Sports Model

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and INVECS Smart Logic – is available as an option.

As with previous models, the Outlander range continues to offer a second engine on some variants, the 3-litre V6 petrol unit generating an output of 169kW/291Nm to

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