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A recent study completed by Scion researcher Richard Parker reveals how experienced tree fellers gain efficiency when using a chainsaw. Parker developed new ways of measuring worker activities using lightweight video cameras attached to the helmet and shoulder of loggers. The cameras recorded exactly what tree fallers were doing and seeing during an average work day, giving an up close and personal view of how they worked. 
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Using horses in a woodlot to help logging might be considered old school, but for Aaron Wozniak, it is a task that won't make him rich. 
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Wallow Fire underscored danger facing Rim Country | Five years worth of sometimes-controversial tree thinning projects saved hundreds of homes in Alpine, Springerville and Greer from the ravages of the Wallow Fire, a just-released Forest Service report has concluded. 
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Researchers urge targeted allocation of forest industry assistance - a public seminar presented by Dr Jacki Schirmer Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. 
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The pressure on the Tasmanian Forestry industry over recent years and months has created a situation in which the industry and workforce cannot be sustained in their current form.  
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Cash from carbon makes forestry a much more attractive proposition than livestock farming on poorer hill country according to a collaborative study led by Crown Research Institute Scion for Waikato Regional Council. The study examined three aspects: the opportunity to the land owner, the opportunity to Waikato Regional Council, and investment structures for carbon forestry. 
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This report is a CSIRO investigation of the profitability of forestry for a wide range of scenarios and is a discussion of practical constraints to widespread expansion of trees to sequester carbon dioxide in the agricultural landscape. 
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International Paper, the world's largest paper and packaging company, has produced 'The Little Book of Commonsense' - a 24pp informative guide to sustainability and the paper industry. 
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