Conference
Technical Full Day Tours |
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Tuesday October
24TH, 8.30 – 5.00PM |
Depart & return
from conference venue |
Each tour
offers all delegates unique opportunities to private
forestry planning, management, silviculture and
operations & processing facilities. Visit industrial
and small-scale private forestry properties demonstrating
best practice and innovation. Alternatively visit
wood processing and product manufacturing industries
with domestic and export markets.
Choose one of
the following: |
Tour
A -
Eucalypt Plantation and Native Forest Tour
Tour
A - Tour
Leader - Robin Dickson
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• Inspect native forest management
- Mt Barrow
• Visit E. nitens plantations and inspect
second rotation sites
• Aerial fertilising of plantations
• Visit farmland converted from pasture to
plantation – site issue
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Tour B - Northern
Midlands (low rainfall) Farm Forestry Tour
Tour B -Tour Leaders
- David Bower & Michael Castley |
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• Visit radiata pine and
eucalypt plantations – integrated planning,
silviculture, productivity,
• nutrition,
genetics, environmental services and managed
investment schemes
• Inspect eucalypt hybrid trials
for salinity and water table control
• Native
forest management for conservation and production
• Rural
tree decline – problems and challenges.
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Tour C -Tamar Valley Processing
Tour
Tour C -Tour Leader - Tony Cannon |
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• Inspect
conventional hardwood sawmill
• Visit woodchip mill and proposed
Gunns Ltd Pulp Mill site
• Tour FEA Hewsaw
mill
• Inspect Particle Board Mill
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Tour D - Specialty Timber Tour
Tour D - Tour Leaders - Mark
Leech & Arthur Lyons |
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• Blackwood with nurse crops – silvicultural
solutions
• Cypress and She-oak plantations – niche
products
• Specialty furniture manufacturer
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Conference Technical Half Day
Tours |
Wednesday October
25TH, 8.00 – 12.30PM |
Depart & return
from conference venue for lunch |
These tours visit three large and very well established
properties, each with property management plans and
diversified enterprises to which forestry is a significant
contributor. The property owners, all AFG members,
are widely recognised for their contribution to private
forestry, Landcare and agriculture. |
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Tour E - ‘Elverton’ Ian
Dickenson, Blessington Past Landcare and
Tour A - AFG Tree Farmer of the Year winners
Tour A - Tour
Leader – Gordon McCutchan |
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• Native forest
management – harvesting and regeneration
• Eucalypt
Plantations – triple bottom line benefits
• Radiata
pine and Cypress Plantations – diversity
and management
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Tour F - ‘Chester’ Bruce
and Katrina Archer, Westwood Past Landcare and
Tour B - AFG Tree Farmer
of the Year winners
Tour B - Tour Leader – David
Bower |
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• Radiata Shelterbelts – adding
value through shelter and clearwood
• Eucalypt
Hybrids – salinity trials
• Rural
Tree Decline – challenges and solutions
• Joint
Venture eucalypt plantations – integrated
farm forestry
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| Tour G - ‘ Springmount’ John
and Diana Lord – Blackwood Creek Current
Tour C – Tasmanian
AFG Tree Farmers of the Year
Tour C – Tour Leader - Joanne Tubb |
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• Radiata pine
plantations – silviculture and investment
decisions
• Eucalypt plantations – thinning
• Regrowth
native forest - management and harvesting
• Joint
Venture eucalypt plantations – diversity
and profit
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