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Latest news

 The CRC for Forestry held a very successful annual science meeting in May 2010 in Fremantle, WA. More than 150 members of the CRC's research, industry and student community attended to learn more about the progress of our research.

Read more here about our students' exciting research (e.g. Media release: Edwina Loxton), and their opportunity to debate the hottest topics in forestry and air their concerns with four senior forestry professionals and academics (Media release: hot topics in forestry debate)

Read the response of CRC for Forestry scientists to the ABC's Australian Story about the effects of Eucalyptus nitens trees on water in the Georges River catchment, Tasmania. And the latest technical report relating to E. nitens.

Email us to request a printed copy of our Highlights & Achievements 2008/9 report or download a low resolution (9 MB) or high resolution (22 MB) version here.

Recent documents and releases

Technical Report 203: Seed germination on filtrates from soil sampled beneath trees of Eucalypus globulus, E. nitens and their F1 hybrid
Potts, BM & Brooker, C (2010) [pdf 82.6 kb]

Forest scientists' response to toxic water claims
Media release 23 February 2010 regarding effects of Eucalyptus nitens trees on water in Georges River catchment, Tasmania, as reported on the ABC's Australian Story on Monday 22 February. [pdf 27.6 kb]

Tree hollows in Tasmania - A guide
Koch A 2009 [pdf 27.3 Mb]

Highlights and Achievements Report 2008/9 (low resolution, 9MB file)
[pdf 8.9 Mb]

Community attitudes to plantations: survey of the views of residents of Tasmania 2008
Williams K 2009 [pdf 4.0 Mb]

CRC for Forestry home

­­Managing & monitoring for growth & health ­

Managi­ng and monitoring for growth and health

Focusing on ways to reduce the cost of wood pr­oduction and off-site effects of tree plantation management, and decrease investment risk [more]
High-value wood resources

High value wood resources

Research into genetics, silviculture and wood quality to increase the value and profitability of eucalypt plantations [more]
Harvesting & operations

Harvesting and operations

Improving safety and efficiency of forest harvesting and log transport operations [more]
Trees in the landscape

Trees in the landscape

Developing forestry practices that meet agreed environmental certification requirements and foster constructive community engagement [more]
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