Category: Plantations

Plantation Establishment, Assessments and Valuations

PFSQ has a team of experienced foresters who can deal with all forestry issues.  Assessments and valuations for Government resumed property, Taxation forestry issues and general financial advice regarding the value of standing timber and the projected growth data, is available. 

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Queensland’s First CarbonSmart Assessor – Paul Daly from SEQ Catchments

MEET Queensland’s first CarbonSmart assessor.

Paul Daly has been appointed by South East Queensland Catchments and Landcare, …

Silviculture research to assist large scale Commercial Farm Forestry in Qld

date 12 Nov 2007 | category Forestry,Plantations

silviculture-research-to-assist-large-scale-commercial-farm-forestry-in-queensland.pdf

Gympie Messmate how does it shape up at 27yrs old

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Release of publication – plantations and water use from the Bureau of Rural Sciences

date 11 Oct 2007 | category General,Plantations,Water

 The new edition of the summary publication on plantations and water use was released yesterday. The major changes from the previous edition include the use of plantation area data to 2005 to show the proportions of plantations in catchments, a wider range of catchments, restricting the land use proportions to areas where average annual rainfall exceeds 600 mm and descriptions of research by CSIRO and BRS into the Murrumbidgee and Upper Murray catchments.

Rainforest Manual Published – from Magazine 7 – Spring 2005

date 15 May 2007 | category Plantations

Noosa Landcare’s Farm Forestry Program

date 21 Mar 2007 | category General,Plantations

Case Study 1. – Erosion mitigation at North Deep Creek
by:   Gary Clarke and Kaara Shaw

Since September 2002 the Noosa Landcare Farm Forestry Program has maintained and increased its services to the community and to individual landholders by undertaking consultancy contracting and total property management services.

Total property management has meant that the program has taken on a wide range of services integrating field operations to gain long term sustainable benefits for the landholders and the environment.

Success Stories

date 23 Feb 2007 | category Forestry,Plantations

Success Stories
Following on from our last success story “Not just a walk in the park” which highlighted the lessons learnt and success achieved by Mr and Mrs Dittrich, this edition we are provided another real life example of the trial and tribulations of private forestry.

PFSQ Forest Consultancy Services

Apart from our workshops our staff can offer professional assistance on a fee for service basis. If you need a forest managament plan developed, a harvest managed, or professional advice the PFSQ team can assist. If you would like …

Small Growers Guide to Nursery Establishment

date 23 Oct 2006 | category General,Plantations

The PFSQ Small Growers Guide to Nursery Establishment has been written to give advice on the establishment of an inexpensive and low maintenance small-scale nursery.

It is aimed at the small-scale farm forester who wishes to progressively establish a commercial hardwood plantation (eg: 500 to 4000 trees at a time). The photographs displayed in this fact sheet show one design option, however, the basic principles can be applied to a number of nursery layouts.