The timber industry generates over $1.2billion of economic activity and employs about 10,000 people.

This site provides links to websites of interest on a range of areas associated with the Huon wood centre including:

Proponents

Forestry Issues for secondary school

For Primary Schools

Other useful wevsites associated with the Forest Industry

Proponents

Forestry Tasmania - Merchandising Yard
Forestry Tasmania website information on organisation and Tasmania's State Forests.

Neville Smith Timber Industries - Regrowth Sawmill
Neville Smith website company information.

Ta Ann Tasmania - Rotary Peel Veneer Mill
Company information.


Forestry Issues for secondary school

This section contains links to documents that explore a range of contemporary issues associated with the forest industry

Tasmania's Regional Forest Agreements
Specific details of Tasmania's RFA

5 yearly Review of Tasmania's RFA (2002)
Details of the review conducted by the Resource Planning and Development Commission into Tasmania's performance with the RFA.

Forest Management
Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry page on forest management.

Sustainability
Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foresty page on sustainability.

Measuring Sustainable Forest Management
Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foresty page discusses how forest sustainability is measured with information on the Montreal process and the development of Australian sustainability criteria.

Clearfelling alternatives
Research into alternatives to clearfelling being conducted at the Warra forest research site in southern Tasmania.

Biodiversity conservation
Work being undertaken by Forestry Tamania scientists on biodiversity conservation.

Forest Research
An overview of the Warra Long-Term Ecological Research Site.