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| UpdatedThe Forestry Corporation buys 7,000 hectares of pine plantation and plantable land near the timber towns of Oberon, Tumut and Tumbarumba.
Topics: forestry, timber, oberon-2787, bathurst-2795, tumbarumba-2653, tumut-2720
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Environmentalists step up their campaign against the harvesting of timber in north-west Tasmania over fears logging will threaten the giant freshwater crayfish population.
Topics: environmental-impact, forestry, endangered-and-protected-species, tas, hobart-7000, smithton-7330
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| UpdatedA packed community meeting at Heyfield in regional Victoria hears that without the local timber mill the place will become a "ghost town".
Topics: forestry, forests, environmental-management, heyfield-3858
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The owner of the Heyfield sawmill in Gippsland asks the Victorian Government to fund a $40 million refit of the mill to take smaller logs.
Topics: forestry, forests, environmental-management, heyfield-3858
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Indian sandalwood producer Tropical Forestry Services buys a Northern Territory banana and melon farm in Douglas-Daly.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, forestry, agricultural-crops, katherine-0850
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A timber supply shortage at Heyfield sawmill Australian Sustainable Hardwood sparks a push to increase plantation timber.
Topics: forestry, timber, building-and-construction, heyfield-3858
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| UpdatedEuropean settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-management, climate-change, forestry, rainfall, drought, bunbury-6230
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A Queensland council becomes the first in the state to adopt a wood encouragement policy that will see it prioritise timber in its construction projects.
Topics: housing-industry, building-and-construction, environmentally-sustainable-business, forestry, timber, maryborough-4650, bundaberg-4670
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The Labor Party in Tasmania is still considering its position on the Government's plan to open up more areas to logging, Upper House MP Craig Farrell says.
Topics: forestry, forests, states-and-territories, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, port-arthur-7182
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Topics: forestry, rural, napier-6330, wa
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Topics: forestry, rural, napier-6330, wa
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| UpdatedBlue gum farmers in WA have managed to get through the industry unscathed.
Topics: forestry, rural, albany-6330, frankland-6396, napier-6330
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A south-east SA timber mill will be transformed into a $20 million timber veneer plant providing around 80 new jobs, says Wattle Range Council.
Topics: forestry, local-government, kalangadoo-5278
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| UpdatedTasPorts joins forces with a private operator to establish a forestry exports terminal at Hobart's Macquarie Point.
Topics: trade, forestry, government-and-politics, environment, hobart-7000, tas
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Residents in South Australia's south-east have the chance to get their hands on a free pine Christmas tree this year, thanks to a festive giveaway from two local organisations.
Topics: forestry, lifestyle-and-leisure, mount-gambier-5290, mount-burr-5279, nangwarry-5277
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Topics: christmas, forestry, mount-gambier-5290
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A Papua New Guinean villager's six-year battle to stop logging around his home has won him an international human rights award and given him the chance to lobby the United States Government for help.
Topics: forestry, rural, environmental-policy, environmental-management, environment, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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| UpdatedForestry Tasmania dismisses concerns harvesting timber from two coupes containing wedge-tailed eagle nests on the Frankland River will threaten the nests.
Topics: forestry, forests, environmental-management, conservation, arthur-river-7330
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Topics: agricultural-prices, crop-harvesting, forestry, crediton-4757
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Topics: agricultural-prices, crop-harvesting, forestry, crediton-4757
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Topics: agricultural-prices, crop-harvesting, forestry, crediton-4757
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Topics: agricultural-prices, crop-harvesting, forestry, crediton-4757
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Topics: forestry, environmental-management, activism-and-lobbying, cathcart-2632