annual report 2011 - Forestry Tasmania

divisional services to external clients
Research Services
Staff from the Division of Forest Research and Development
work with external clients, such as other forestry companies
and land managers, in a number of ways, including research
contracts and technical service consultancies.
The Division has significant experience in delivering
contract research and consultancies to industry and other
organisations both in Tasmania and abroad. A substantial
body of know-how and other intellectual property has
been gained by the Division through long experience of
native forest management, and specialist skills have been
developed in growing plantation pines and eucalypts for
solid timber products.
Divisional staff provide training and operational advice to
internal and external clients in harvesting, regeneration,
thinning and pruning procedures. Specialist manuals,
standard operating procedures, and quality assessment
protocols for these operations have also been developed.
The Division works with clients in a number of ways such
as collaborative research, research services contracts,
and technical services consultancies on specific projects
undertaken on a fee-for-service basis.
Key advantages for clients who use Research Branch
Services are:
of forestry research and development, and provision
of technical solutions for a large native forest and
plantation estate.
in development of specialist hardwood silvicultural
regimes for maximising solid wood production.
Specialist technical services are offered in:
preparation, sowing and remedial treatments.
commercial thinning operations.
regimes to produce clearwood in sawlogs from eucalypt
plantations.
plantations, diagnosis of forest health problems (pests,
diseases and abiotic issues), advice on the significance
of their impacts, and advice on management options.
eucalypt plantations, and use of environmentally
friendly insecticides to control major insect pests of
eucalypt plantations.
biodiversity, analysis and interpretation of biodiversity
data, and development of appropriate management
prescriptions for biodiversity.
Forestry Tasmania has signed a commercial agreement with
China’s Yong’an Forestry Group (YFG). Under the agreement,
Forestry Tasmania’s business arm, Forest Technical Services,
is working with YFG to improve the way trees are grown
in eucalypt plantations in Fujian Province in south-eastern
China. Forestry Tasmania is providing services to develop
tree breeding and silviculture, and also helping develop
sustainable management of plantations, which is becoming
an increasingly high priority in China.
quality science but also in converting project outcomes
into operational realities in the forest.
Dr Matt Wood measuring tree height with Yong’an Forestry
staff in a silviculture demonstration trial, Yong’an, China.
Eucalyptus dunnii aged 6 months.