Private Forests Tasmania staff prepared papers and presentations for the Australian Forest Growers' (AFG) conference in Launceston, October 2006, and these can be found at: http://www.afg.asn.au/conferences/conferences.html.
Topics include
Peter Taylor - Estimating the area of cleared private land in Tasmania with suitable plantation potential.
Peter Taylor - Performance of Pinus radiata in stock havens in southern Tasmania.
Peter Taylor - Private Timber Reserves - an uniquely Tasmanian idea.
Peter Taylor - Is private forestry still "The Sleeping Giant?" Presentation (PDF file - 307 KB)
Peter Taylor & Peter Lockwood - Private forestry and forest practices audits. Presentation (PDF file - 4.49 MB)
Juile Finnigan & Rebecca Poulton - Trees for salinity management in Tasmania. Presentation (PDF file - 1.68 MB)
Andy Warner - Farm Forestry Toolbox version 5 - Making the most of your tree measurements.
David Lane - Sustainable farm forestry in Natural Resource Management - Valuing the investment and the people. Presentation (PDF file - 4.43 MB)
Rob Smith - Technologies for small scale forest harvesting operations in Tasmania. Presentation (PDF file - 1.25 MB)
Arthur Lyons - A strategic and successful approach to delivering farm forestry in Tasmania 1996 - 2006. Presentation (PDF file - 1.61 MB)
Proceedings of the conference are available from AFG for $55.00 for hard copies and $22.00 for CD. Please refer to the AFG website for contact details.
PFT acknowledges copyright rests with AFG for these articles.
