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FFORNE HARDWOOD COOOPERATIVE has close associations with many companies including the following:TreeSmart SMARTimbers Farm Forestry Services
TreeSmart TreeSmart is a carbon sequestration program aimed at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that has been created by the transport sector. It does this by helping to establish and maintain eucalypt plantations destined for eventual harvesting and replanting. The TreeSmart program is run by a private company (TreeSmart Australia Pty Ltd) set up for the express purpose of running the TreeSmart program on a "profit for purpose" basis. The TreeSmart program concept was developed by the The Urban Transport Institute and Green & Gold Tree Farms. tel 5774 7617 LINK: TreeSmart.com.au
SMARTimbers A central Victorian landholder cooperative that is processing and marketing an unique, naturally durable farm plantation hardwood timber - sugar gum. SMARTimbers is concentrating on the mature sugar gum resource in the Western District while its members are growing other species for high quality hardwood. SMARTimbers LINK: SMARTimbers.com.au
Farm Forestry Services John Woodley, Director of Farm Forestry Services, has a lot of experience and a good understanding of all aspects of timber plantation establishment, management from nursery work to logging of both native forests and plantation grown timber trees, and milling both softwood and hardwood sawlogs. He leads a team of enthusiastic and skilled silviculture tradesmen. John is a plantation owner, forestry joint venture partner, farm forestry advisor, pruned stand auditor and licensed hardwood faller and sawlog grader. John has hosted Farm Forestry tours and co-organised a Master Tree growers course in 2005. John has been involved with trial work with Department of Primary Industries in farm forestry plantations and is enthusiastic about the future for plantation grown timber. He has set up his property at Taggerty to demonstrate different ways that trees can be utilised on farms. e-mail: johnrwoodley@bigpond.com LINK: www.farmforestry.com.au SMARTimbers FFORNE Hardwood Sawlog Plantation Cooperative has a close working relationship and exchange of ideas with the other private forestry hardwood cooperative SMARTimbers, based in the Western District. (see strategic alliances)
Graeme Stoney (General Manager of FFORNE), Andrew Lang (Chairman of SMARTimbers) and Sandy MacMillan (Board member of SMARTimbers) inspecting sugar gum 6mm leaf veneer at Lismore.
A trial plantation for scientific purposes to research different stocks of Eucalyptus cladocalyx (sugar gum) . This trial will identify which stocks are the most suitable to grow straight trees which require little pruning. It is interesting to note the differences between stock trees with some retaining their lower limbs and others shedding them early. It is of concern that this important trial is lacking ongoing funding at present.
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