Category: Plantations

MEET Queensland’s first carbon assessor.

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

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 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.

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
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.

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 …

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.

The fundamental rule of productive native forest management is to always leave forest areas in a condition that allows them to regenerate and maintain, or in some cases, improve their productivity after harvesting, thinning or even burning.
The first stage of sustainable native forest management is achieved by optimising individual tree growing space – providing trees with enough space to grow. Tree stocking levels i.e. trees/stems per hectare, is dependent upon tree species (type), their diameter (size) and the quality of the site (soil type and depth, rainfall, etc). As a general rule, as trees get larger, more space is required for them to increase in diameter, plus maintain tree health and growth vigour.