Friday Offcuts – 15 August 2025
Click to Subscribe - It's FREE! Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Offcuts.Major policy initiatives take centre stage this week. In Queensland, the timber industry has rallied behind the Prosper 2050 blueprint, viewing the 2032 Brisbane Olympics as a prime opportunity for sustainable timber construction. Meanwhile, the AFPA is renewing calls for the government to recognise the value of multiple-use public forests. The sector will again be in the spotlight next Tuesday (19 August 2025) with Australia’s National Forestry Day. New Zealand is deep in debate over carbon forestry as a new bill seeks to limit ETS-driven farm-to-forest conversions. The government has also officially approved NZ’s new Forestry Approved Code of Practice (ACOP), which will come into effect on 26 August 2025. Adding to the policy focus, a new report underscores the critical impacts on industry as the country looks towards a future without gas. In technology, Forestry Corporation is rolling out Australia’s largest AI-powered fire detection camera network across NSW, while Scion is demonstrating how new AI tools are delivering near real-time insights into the Nelson/Tasman forest storm damage. Market news shows New Zealand’s export log prices at their highest August levels since 2018, even as the domestic market shows signs of weakness. Internationally, Canada faces a monumental reforestation challenge after record wildfires, requiring an estimated 6.8 billion seedlings at an absolute minimum. Finally, it’s the last chance for international participants to register for the live virtual stream of next week’s Carbon Forestry 2025 - the in-person event has already sold out. Read these stories and more in another packed edition of Friday Offcuts.
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Timber industry backs Prosper 2050 at Ekka launch
The peak state body for the forest and timber industry in Queensland has
backed the release of the Prosper 2050 blueprint at the Ekka show
earlier this week. Speaking at the launch Timber Queensland CEO Mick Stephens said “What we like about the blueprint is that growing the primary industries sector for both food and fibre also creates direct downstream benefits for the built environment.” “This is not only about producing the best clean, green food across the state, but also the best timber as a renewable and green building material for housing and infrastructure projects.” Launching the blueprint at the Ekka, set to become the site of the Athletes’ Village and a major precinct upgrade for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics, reinforced the case for Queensland timber as a cornerstone of iconic, sustainable infrastructure that delivers value well beyond 2032. The launch of Prosper 2050 and the draft Queensland Future Timber Plan by the Primary Industries Minister during Ekka week is laying the groundwork for the timber industry to work collaboratively with the Government on long-term solutions to meet growing building demand. “The announcement on the transformation of the Brisbane showgrounds and development of the Athletes Village at the Bowen Hills site as part of the 2032 Olympics represents a significant opportunity for such collaboration,” Mr Stephens said. “Queensland has a long and rich heritage of using durable and sustainable local timber for its housing and public building needs. Incorporating this heritage into new iconic projects such as the Athletes Village and sporting venues can showcase both modern innovation with timber building systems and their biophilic health benefits for athletes and future occupants alike.” “At the Paris Olympics for example, the Athletes Village and Aquatics Centre were both built using mass timber systems as part of a dedicated program for sustainability.” Procurement policies that preference sustainable construction materials such as timber can play an important role in delivering future infrastructure solutions in terms of sustainability, on-site workplace safety and total project cost-savings through prefabrication systems. These opportunities will be fully explored as part of the proactive agenda with the Government for the forestry and timber construction industry. Industry trends and opportunities from farm forestry incorporating timber and beef production through to housing demand and modern methods of timber construction will be a focus of the Doing Timber Business in Queensland Conference to be held in Brisbane from 2-3 September 2025. Source & image credit: Timber Queensland Planting for the planet – The case for carbon forests
As the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Scheme
– Forestry Conversion) Amendment Bill moves through
Parliament, opposition to carbon forestry is reaching a crescendo. It is
timely to take stock of why carbon forests exist and the broader
benefits they provide.Carbon forestry refers to planting trees to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as a public-good service, with an end-goal of slowing climate change. Carbon sequestered by forests plays an important role in helping New Zealand to meet its international obligations under the Paris Agreement. It can also be sold through the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which functions as a market-based mechanism to reduce emissions by pricing carbon. Most carbon forests use exotic tree species, particularly Pinus Radiata due to its superior growth rate and capacity to store more carbon in a shorter time frame than most other species, especially natives. This is about creating a tool in the climate response toolkit that works quickly and efficiently. Many carbon forests are dual purpose Importantly, growing trees for carbon sequestration and growing trees for timber production are not mutually exclusive as commonly believed. While there is limited hard data, anecdotal evidence suggests much of the recent planting is for bothcarbon income and eventual harvest. That dual purpose is both practical and strategic. The carbon market is a policy construct vulnerable to political whim. Production forestry on the other hand, is a long-term commodity investment. Relying solely on carbon revenue would be risky. Instead, the income offered through carbon provides critical, early cashflow for tending of a forest to maximise harvest value and support management activities. In other words, for many foresters carbon income is not the cake, it’s the icing. Establishment of new carbon forests is rapidly slowing There has been a marked increase in carbon forestry since 2018. Whole-farm conversions have accounted for most of the expansion, with significant involvement of corporates and overseas investment. This has caused a degree of angst in the rural sector – although it needs to be noted that the total area of exotic forest is not that much greater now than way back in 2002. If we look at the figures from the latest Orme and Associates report, by 2024 whole-farm conversions had decreased by over 50 percent from peak conversion in 2022, and are continuing to trend down in 2025. Conversions are now at the lowest rate we’ve seen in six years. Farmers have had a lobbying win The Bill currently before Parliament is a lobbying win for farmers. It proposes to restrict what land can be registered in the ETS. Landowners would be permitted to plant up to 25 percent of their Land Use Class 1 – 6 land in forest for ETS purposes. Whole-farm conversions would face a complete moratorium on Class 1 – 5 land (i.e., cropping and better-quality pastoral land) and a hard cap of 15,000 ha per year of new planting on Class 6 land (good-to-average pastoral land), with some serious issues around how this quota would be allocated. Class 7 and 8 land – poorer quality pastoral land and steeper “tiger country” respectively – remain unrestricted. Even so, some farming groups are still not satisfied. They want the moratorium extended to include Class 6 land as well. This would effectively push any future expansion of corporate forestry that wishes to register in the ETS onto Class 7 – land which is marginal even for production forestry. Such a move severely constrains the viability, let alone expansion, of a sector that has grown to become New Zealand’s fifth largest export earner. Needless to say, the corporate side of town is not happy. Gross versus net emissions debate There is a broader philosophical debate here. Should we focus on reducing gross emissions – cutting what we put into the atmosphere? Or on net emissions, which factors in removals via carbon sinks like forests? More >> Source: Richard Holloway Richard Holloway is an agricultural economist and farm-forester with 280ha of mixed species production forest registered in the ETS. He is also a chair at next week's Carbon Forestry 2025  Australian National Forestry Day just one week away!
The Australian Forest Products Association’s (AFPA’s) own
National Forestry Day is now just one week away!AFPA’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer Richard Hyett said, “ National Forestry Day on Tuesday 19 August 2025 is a day worth celebrating. It’s a day to recognise our forestry and forest products sector that contributes so much in terms of jobs, essential products, economic activity, enhancing our environment and fighting climate change.” The National Forestry Day concept was developed by AFPA in 2022 to celebrate all that’s great about Australia’s forest industries and to help raise the profile of the sector among Australia’s governments, elected representatives, consumers and the broader community. “Think about all the forestry products you love and need to use. The timber house-frame inside the walls of your home, the cardboard boxes your latest delivery arrived in, the hardwood dining table in your living area and of course the toilet paper in your bathroom! Without Australia’s sustainable and renewable forest products sector, we wouldn’t have these locally made products,” Richard Hyett said. Furthermore, Australia’s forest products sector supports approximately 180,000 direct and indirect jobs. Our people are highly experienced professionals who understand the science behind growing productive and healthy forest ecosystems with multi-value benefits. Our sector contributes $24 billion to the national economy annually. Many of our sector’s operations are naturally located in regional Australia, underpinning hundreds of communities, many for generations on end. We are also critical for the environment and fighting climate change. As production trees grow they absorb carbon, which then continues to be stored in timber and wood-fibre products and the built environment, long after the trees are sustainably harvested. We are a big part of the answer to Australia reaching its net-zero goals. “We encourage all Australians to stop and reflect on the importance of our forestry and forest products sector and what it provides for the country this coming National Forestry Day next Tuesday the 19th of August,” Richard Hyett concluded. More >> Source & image credit: Australian Forest products Association (AFPA)  ‘Protecting industry as the gas runs out’ - new research
High electricity costs and the insecurity of future gas
availability are key drivers for the Wood Processors and Manufacturers
Association of NZ (WPMA) to provide support for the “
Protecting industry, jobs and household budgets as the gas runs
out” research report released this week by
the Green Building Council.While various options to solve future energy shortfalls have been mooted, this report goes a step further and outlines a well-defined case based on the acceleration of heat pumps in our homes to free up gas and electricity for industry growth. ‘The uncertainty created by energy demands is a serious threat to manufacturing growth within New Zealand and we need to ensure there is positive action, especially from Government’ said Mark Ross, WPMA Chief Executive. ‘The closure of three wood manufacturing mills in 2024 due to escalating electricity and gas prices has scarred local communities and the economy leaving our industry energy exposed’. Although not outright future energy solutions on their own, the recommendations within the Green Building Councils’ report, such as requiring new buildings to be “all-electric” and expanding the Warmer Kiwi Homes to include a wider range of insulation products and retrofit for the least energy efficient low-income homes, are well argued and require further consideration by Government. ‘Enabling secure and affordable energy for our industry will assist in encouraging further investment in pulp, paperboard and value-added wood processing production within New Zealand’, said Ross, ‘it is pleasing to see the Green Building Council rise to the Prime Ministers challenge of finding new energy solutions, potentially freeing up additional electricity and gas for our industry’. New Zealand’s energy prices for manufacturers are significantly higher than in countries where our major competitors reside. The opportunities to fix our energy problem are out there, with WPMA promoting this report and a long-term dual-party energy strategy to keep our businesses open, protect jobs, and build a more secure and affordable future. Click here for the full report Source: Wood Processors and Manufacturing Association of NZ (WPMA)  Australia's largest fire detection camera rollout
Forestry Corporation is deploying early fire detection cameras
across NSW State forests in the largest rollout of this groundbreaking
technology in Australia. The network will be installed
across the state's major softwood growing regions, covering 1.2 million
hectares of land from Northern NSW to the NSW-Victoria border, with
cameras installed at 22 strategic locations.Key regions monitored by the cameras include Tumut, Moss Vale, Bombala, Walcha, and Bathurst, including three wind farm development zones near Bathurst and Tumut. The cameras will not only help protect critical plantation assets but also neighbouring communities, national parks and privately-owned agricultural land. The cameras will be provided by technology provider Pano AI. Powered by artificial intelligence, these cameras scan the landscape, track changes in pixel colour detecting smoke columns, delivering real-time alerts to fire crews and allowing rapid fire response. Land Management & Innovation Manager Jamie Carter said the cameras will enhance Forestry Corporation's existing fire tower network, which is the largest in the country, by providing additional coverage and extending fire detection during overnight hours and in low-visibility conditions. "This is a significant milestone after four years of trialing and refining our approach to early fire detection," Mr Carter said. "Following the significant impact of the 2019–2020 Black Summer fires where 25% of the pine plantation estate was burnt, Forestry Corporation has focused on aligning technological advancement with the needs of the NSW softwood estate. "This solution provides a critical edge in the crucial first 30 minutes after ignition, which is hugely important from a firefighting perspective," he said. Fire detection technology has been extensively trialled in the US, South Africa and Europe and here in Australia trained to local conditions. Pano AI's Head of Australia GTM Andrew Prolov said the partnership with Forestry Corporation was a clear signal that the technology is now mature and accepted by industry and emergency services, playing a key role in protecting lives and livelihoods. "Pano's solution is trained on billions of images from diverse landscapes, micro-climates, and seasons across Australia and internationally," Mr Prolov said. "By combining AI detection with advanced geospatial insights, it helps Forestry Corporation understand the full context of each fire detected," he said. Research shows that 80–85% of the area monitored by Forestry Corporation's fire towers also includes surrounding private property and public lands providing a significant and wide-reaching community benefit. In regions like Bathurst, tower operators detect and report more than half of all fires, often placing the first call to emergency services across these land tenures. "This technology won't replace our highly skilled fire tower operators, but it's a powerful addition to our early detection suite. We're proud to lead the way in this field," Mr Carter added. The rollout directly responds to key recommendations from the Independent NSW Bushfire Inquiry that followed the 2019 /2020 Black Summer fires, calling for enhanced remote fire detection capabilities. Over the last two decades, approximately 70,000 hectares of softwood forests in NSW have been impacted by fire. With State forests producing enough timber each year to build 40,000 new homes, strengthening early fire detection is critical to safeguarding the state's timber supply. Source: Forestry Corporation  Forestry Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) is approved
The Safe Practice for Forestry and Harvesting Operations has
been approved by the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, Brooke
Van Velden. This means it’s now an Approved Code of Practice
(ACOP).The ACOP outlines the responsibilities and legal expectations for forestry operators, and helps workers know what good looks like. It uses shared language between industry and WorkSafe and simplifies WorkSafe’s expectations of businesses and worker to keep people safe at work. When the guidance will be available The ACOP will come into effect on 26 August 2025 and will be published alongside the Good Practice Guide for Small Forestry Operations. We’ve developed a set of online learning modules to help industry get familiar with the ACOP and what it means for businesses and workers. These will also be available once the guidance is in effect. Links to the full suite of guidance and learning modules will be released as soon as it’s available. Next steps The Minister will officially launch the ACOP in Palmerston North on 26 August 2025, at a Forest Industry Contractors Association event. It will go online the same day. After that, we will be coordinating our efforts with forestry people and industry groups to help put the ACOP into practice. Thank you for all your help Once again, we’d like to thank you for your work and considerable contribution in developing an ACOP that brings together sound industry knowledge with technical health and safety expertise. The ACOP sets a good direction for improving health and safety outcomes, and we look forward to engagement with industry continuing. Source: WorkSafe NZ Image credit: FOA NZ  NZ market update - August 2025
It’s that time of year when the lambs start appearing, the
days start stretching out, and you get a sense of hope that summer's
around the corner and things will begin to dry out. Depending
on which part of the country you’re in, you’ll have a
different view of how kind winter has been, but the general consensus is
wet, really wet, and, if you’re in Nelson, windy as well.We have been reasonably fortunate over the winter in terms of log prices, with spot numbers above historical levels for this time of year. Export prices are still well under where we’d like them to be, but they haven’t been as bad as previous years. This is primarily due to lower NZ supply volumes into China and more stability in shipping and foreign exchange rates. August at wharf gate (AWG) prices have been released at around the NZ$122/JAS level (A grade 3.9m) for Southern North Island ports which is the highest August spot price since 2018. Log uplift from Chinese ports has increased from 50,000m3 per day in early July to a shade under 60,000m3 per day currently. Inventory levels dropped around 190,000m3 in July and total softwood inventory now sits below the magic 3 million m3 mark and is expected to continue to recede as the Chinese construction seasons kicks off and NZ supply remains static. The widely reported windthrow in the Nelson Tasman region is very unlikely to result in any notable export supply increase, as both infrastructure and port berthage provide a Hulk Hogan level of chokehold on throughput. General expectation is that in-market sales prices will continue to rise against lower inventory levels, and traders will look to lock down vessels to take advantage of the historical price increase in Q4. The effect of the log futures market is yet to be fully understood, as it is only in its infancy. Approximately 115,000m3 was delivered against futures contracts in July, which was the first month of delivery, and buyer participation in this sale method is expected to increase over time. The domestic market isn’t looking so rosy, with poor demand and increasing inventories of framing timber around the country. NZ building consents dropped by 6.4% month-on-month in June, indicating a significant shift in sentiment which will have a flow-on to actual construction numbers later in 2025. All eyes will be on the OCR announcement on the 20th, with commentators expecting a reduction of around 25 basis points and many expecting it to finally land at 2.5%. While a further cut is likely to inject some confidence into the sector, it may be a reasonable timeframe before it converts into hammers and toolbelts. The resulting softness has seen two sawmills in the SNI reduce log prices for both framing and pruned grades, which is the first price drop in a number of years. More >> Source & image credit: Forest360 .jpg) Public forest lockups are bad for the community
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) is renewing
calls for governments nationally to maintain more multiple-use public
forests, better recognise their community amenity benefits and their
critical provision for sustainably sourced timber and wood-fibre
resources to build the nation, Deputy Chief Executive Officer
of AFPA, Richard Hyett said this week.“The NSW Parliament has been inquiring into access restrictions to public lands and waterways. This is a timely opportunity to remind policy and decision makers of the benefits multiple-use public forests provide for the community, through recreation and other uses and through sustainable forestry. It’s also an opportunity to call out the worrying trend of more forest lockups and conversion to national parks,” Richard Hyett said. NSW has a very large conservation reserve network including a comprehensive, adequate and representative reserve network encompassing more than 7.5 million hectares of national parks and reserves. In NSW alone over the past 30 years, more than 1.2 million hectares of state forests have been converted to national parks, meaning nearly 10 per cent of NSW’s total area has become national park. At the same time, Australia’s total forest area grew by 2.8 million hectares from 2008 to 2021, while total multiple-use public native forest area, has more than halved since the mid-1990s, equating now to about three per cent of Australia’s total forest area. “This is minuscule compared with the European Union where 84 per cent of the Native (Natural) forest is available for sustainable wood production and it needs to be considered in that context,” Richard Hyett said. “Despite this, activists continue to demand that well managed multiple-use public native forests be locked up instead of demanding that under resourced National Parks be better managed to deliver the appropriate protections for biodiversity and threatened species for which they were created.” Multiple-use public forests provide an enormous array of benefits, including:
Furthermore, the recently released Federal Government’s Timber Fibre Strategy points to the growing gap between domestic sawn timber demand, for activities like housing construction, and domestic supply capacity – already exacerbated by reduced access to sustainable native forest timber. “Sadly, multiple-use public forests have become a soft target for governments to satisfy misguided activists who irresponsibly demand that forests sit under lock and key. It’s time for governments to better recognise the value of forests that are open for use, including sustainable forestry, and give them better consideration, rather than the lazy approach of lockups and conversion to national parks,” Richard Hyett concluded. More >> Source: Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA)  Storm damage rapidly detected using Scion intelligence app
An AI tool using satellite imagery has been
developed in the wake of the Nelson Tasman floods to deliver near real-time insights into forest damage. The collaborative tool
is helping the forestry sector and other land users assess impacts more
quickly and plan recovery efforts with greater confidence.The Scion Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute (BSI) worked with Indufor on the tool’s development, to support recovery efforts. Using satellite data, the tool detects and maps storm-related damage to planted forests and the wider environment. Using freely available Sentinel satellite imagery and radar, the team was able to detect windthrow and storm-related damage. The result: near real-time intelligence that helped forestry stakeholders understand the extent and location of the impacts. Michael Watt, the Scion Group’s New Value Digital Forests and Wood Sector portfolio lead, says the lightweight app transforms complex remote sensing data into accessible insights, such as the estimated area and severity of affected forest blocks. “The tool equips the forestry industry with timely insights, making tasks such as damage assessment, operational planning and processing logistics significantly easier. “Councils, forestry companies and landowners can use the data we generate to quickly pinpoint impacted areas across the region. This supports rapid response and recovery across forests, croplands, orchards, farms and other land uses, as well as critical infrastructure.” This technology was first operationalised following Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023, when the Scion Group used it to assess storm damage across severely impacted areas within Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay. Indufor subsequently used similar methods to map windthrow throughout the entire Gisborne region within plantation boundaries identified using ForestInsights. “Cyclone Gabrielle was the first real-world opportunity to deploy this system at scale following a natural disaster,” Michael says. “Since then, the methods we use have been refined. The increasing frequency of events such as the Nelson Tasman storms shows how essential this rapid response capability is becoming. "We now have validated models that can be deployed to rapidly detect and map regional windthrow from satellites, even under cloudy conditions.” More >> Source & image credit: Scion  SnapSTAT - GDP indicators: Cement, used cars & tractors Cement, used cars & tractors. They didn’t walk into a bar like a dad-joke, but they do illustrate the state of NZ's economy currently. Today's chart shows the trend series for each on a per capita basis, indexed to 2000 for easy comparison. Readymix concrete (mixture of cement and aggregates) is a good indicator of construction activity (used for foundations for homes to bridges). It is currently not that far off the lows of the GFC. It's pretty tough. But there are some encouraging signs of a bottom on leading indicators like building consents.  Source: Shamubeel Eaqub, Simplicity The battle to curb ETS-driven farm-to-forest conversions
Well-known NZ Herald rural business reporter Jamie Gray wrote in
the NZ Herald this week that farmers look set to get their way if, as
expected, the Government’s “farm-to-forest” ban
becomes law later this year. He quotes Minister of Agriculture, Todd McClay, who said ETS incentives have driven the wrong outcomes for the rural sector for too long. "Once farms are planted in trees as a result of carbon credits we lose the ability to produce the high-quality, safe food that consumers demand – and we lose rural jobs, export earnings and the families that go with them," he said at the bill’s first reading. Climate Forestry Association chief executive, Andrew Cushen, says various reviews under the previous Government have already dented confidence and participation in the ETS. Dennis Neilson, a director of forest industry advisory and publishing firm, DANA, says the farming sector has been laying it on a bit thick, but he concedes it has done a better job of lobbying than the forestry sector. Neilson says there is now less land area in plantation trees in 2024 than there was in 2003. That’s borne out by the numbers. Richard Holloway, an agricultural economist with 40 years’ experience who now farms sheep and cattle, alongside a 270ha forest estate in Canterbury, takes issue with farmer messaging. The campaign portrays exotic forestry as being largely responsible for the significant decline in the national sheep flock over the past 30 years. “The facts simply do not support this and deserve to be put on record considering the importance of these two sectors to the NZ economy,” he says. “Let’s face it, sheep and beef returns have steadily declined over time, and [forestry] is a nice option for a bit of diversification into another enterprise. Laying the blame on forestry for the decline in sheep farming is “palpably incorrect”. More >> Source: Jamie Gray, Business Reporter for NZ Herald --(2022)2.jpg) FEA Update: China softwood log inventoriesChina’s Softwood Log Inventories at Ocean Ports – FEA industry sources in China report that softwood log inventories at the country’s main ocean ports totalled 2.96 million m³ on August 2, 2025, down 4.2% (-131,000 m³) from late June, as follows:
Of the total radiata pine log inventory, the proportion of small A-grade and pulp-grade logs has remained relatively high amid slow sales, due largely to supply competition from domestic plantations servicing OSB and peeling veneer applications.  In terms of overall sales, average daily sales volume reached 50,680 m³ for the month, versus 51,500 m³ in July 2024 and 72,500 m³ in July 2023.  Starting in early June this year, we officially rebranded the China Bulletin as the Asia Bulletin. Now, The Asia Bulletin now includes coverage of India, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and China. For more information on FEA’s Asia Bulletin where this data is reported monthly, please visit The Asia Bulletin, or contact Matt Robertson. Source: FEA Canada needs 6.8B seedlings to restore just 15% of forest
New data revealing the escalating scale of Canada's forest
restoration challenge following three consecutive record-breaking
wildfire seasons was unveiled at the Canadian Tree Nursery
Association-Association Canadienne des Pépinières
Forestières (CTNA-ACPF) second Annual General Meeting."The scale of destruction in 2023, 2024, and now 2025, is taking a tragic toll on Canadian communities and our forests” stated Rob Keen, Executive Director of the CTNA-ACPF. "We now require over 6.8 billion seedlings to restore just 15% of the forests lost to these catastrophic wildfires. This is not just an environmental crisis, the economic and social costs require immediate action from our Prime Minister, Premiers, and Forest Ministers." Recent record wildfires have created an urgent need for coordinated, large-scale reforestation, but restoration efforts are being undermined by provincial funding cuts. British Columbia's tree planting numbers have declined significantly from 300 million in 2024 to 240 million in 2025, with projections of just 226 million in 2026. This represents a cumulative reduction of 134 million seedlings since 2024 and signals a troubling shift in the wrong direction. As well, fires have devastated a large portion of Saskatchewan’s production forest, threatening future wood supply and long-term forest industry viability. At this time, no proactive measures are being taken to restore these forests. Urgent restoration efforts must be taken now to avoid significant long-term consequences. Planning and growing seedlings for forest restoration spans two to four years. This necessitates significant long-term investments from Canada’s nurseries and the entire forest restoration supply chain to ensure the availability of the right tree species and infrastructure to get the trees planted. The CTNA-ACPF has a four-step plan to respond to this challenge by proposing establishment of a National Forest Restoration Task Team. This Team would bring together experts from the forest restoration supply chain for a coordinated, regionally responsive recovery effort. It would collaborate with provincial, territorial, and indigenous partners to coordinate federal and provincial support and focus on the following:
Governments must increase their commitment to restoring Crown forests and proactively prepare for future climate challenges, investing in these public assets for long-term health and benefits. More >> Source: Canadian Tree Nursery Association  Jobs
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