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How's Your Health - Forests to undergo tougher condition monitoring

Are New Zealand’s forests less healthy than they used to be? The truth is, nobody really knows for certain, but informal estimates put the cost to the industry of pests and diseases at around NZ$200 million annually - as Vivienne McLean reports. ... Read

Harvest Planning - Focus of a digital technology revolution

The never-ending search for more cost-effective harvesting methods leads inevitably to better planning and, as Vivienne McLean reports, mapping is an increasingly important part of the mix. ... Read

The Wrath Of Gudrun - Swedish spruce forests laid waste

It happened two weeks after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami took its terrible toll in Southeast Asia. There was no direct loss of life, but the strom called Gudrun that flattened vast areas of Swedish pine forest caused at least two people to commit suicide. This special report for Inwood has been adapted from an original story by Skogen magazine editor-in-chief Bengt Ek. ... Read

Passion, Pleasure And The Meaning Of Life

The editor labelled me as passionately provocative in his Inwood/FI amalgamation editorial in the previous issue. I am not sure quite what that means and others can judge if it is appropriate, but there has been another label that I relate to more easily and which seems appropriate for a farm forester's column. I was once described as "eternally optimistic" - about forestry that is. ... Read

Up, Down & Sideways

A more unified voice, more funds for promotion and a more commercial , industry-wide structure: it sounds like the current catch-cry of the New Zealand wood industry. But as Tony Neilson reports, the same concerns are alive and well in Australia. ... Read

A Generic Gem - American hardwood campaign scoring big

It is a classic generic wood marketing strategy, built on simple promotional tactics and it is achieving impressive results worldwide. Tony Neilson found out how it is done. ... Read

Hot To Trot - India wants more than a ‘hit and run’ service

Global wood markets specialist Rod Wiles takes a close look at India and provides a pragmatic evaluation of New Zealand and Australia’s chances of making genuine inroads into this rapidly expanding market. ... Read

Wood's Getting Hammered

Given that timber was New Zealand’s first export product and that the industry has been of central importance to the economy ever since, Elizabeth Howarth identifies a growing need to remind Kiwis of the capabilities of wood products. ... Read