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Ewan McGregor: Lesson to be learned from radiata pines
New Zealand can take satisfaction from its forestry ethic
Shane Jones announces funding boost to One Billion Trees programme
$422,500 for research to improve NZ's native seedline production has been announced.
Comment: Why Shane Jones' Billion Tree scheme will fail
Comment: China takes 75% of our logs, you could say we have all our logs in one basket.
B+LNZ looking into impact of forestry conversions
Concerns mounting over increase in sales of sheep and beef farms into forestry.
Tracey Collis: Forestry hurts rural community
Change is good but only if there are clear outcomes sought for all involved.
Comment: Government won't see the wood for the trees
Comment: Federated Farmers is concerned to see industrial forestry replace farms.
Why lamb could get more expensive
Conversions of sheep and beef land to forestry expected to reduce lamb supply.
Rural discontent as more land goes to forestry
Discontent in the regions is growing as more land is converted to forestry.
Ministers 'defang misapprehensions' around one-billion-trees policy
Damien O'Connor is calling for farmers to plant more trees on their land.
Comment: Billion trees plan needs thoughtful policy
Comment: The desire to cover farms in trees is farming's biggest challenge at present.
Wilding war: The pest that could swallow a quarter of NZ
Conservationists have swept a plant pest off Rainbow Mountain. But the battle isn't over.
Billion trees snag? Contractors face 'drastic' shortage of planters
"We used to have hundreds putting their hands up," CNI director Stewart Hyde says.
Iain Hyndman: Golden goose to the slaughter
Are trees killing the golden goose that lays the golden agricultural egg?
Iain Hyndman: Billion trees putting farming at risk
Billion trees protagonists can't see the wood for the trees, writes Iain Hyndman.
Doughty on deck
Newly-elected Ruapehu-Whanganui Rural Support Trust chair Brian Doughty reports for duty.
Port's world-first logging truck scalers safer
Ground-breaking robotics set to transform log processing at ports.
Forestry incentives drive prices up
The impact on prices was greater in the North Island than in the South Island.
Farmland sales to forestry will 'impact all rural areas'
Lobby group Fifty Shades of Green concerned farmland is being converted to forestry.
Abatement notices issued to forest harvesters
Flight on behalf of regional council assesses compliance with new forestry rules.
Listen: The forestry debate - Trees vs sheep and cows
Replacing all our sheep & beef country with trees is "kind of ludicrous", says David Shaw.
'They can't catch you': Truckie told by boss to fabricate logbook
Sten Semenoff wins next round against NZTA.
Farm forestry conference focuses on future
Farm foresters have important role to play in addressing issues, say conference organisers
Rural crews tackle out of control burn
Whananaki Rural Fire brigade and brigade from Maungakaramea were called to the fire.
Forestry's threat to farming
Dave Read says forestry is a threat to the sheep and beef industry and small rural towns.
Trees threaten livestock numbers
Blanket tree planting on large chunks of productive land is pushing livestock numbers down
Forestry pilot hailed a success
Logging training scheme in Gisborne could be rolled out nationally due to its success.
Farmer: 'Biological' greenhouse gases merit different treatment
Report moots treating agricultural greenhouse gases differently to fossil fuel emissions.
NZ's first all-female forestry crew
Women branch out to fill labour shortage. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Damage to helicopter too extensive to determine cause of fatal crash
Helicopter hit the ground at a high rate of descent and intense fire followed.
European investors eye billion trees project
The billion trees project has attracted the eye of some deep-pocketed players.
Environment watchdog's bold idea to combat climate change
Biological emissions from farms should be policed differently to CO2, watchdog says.
Waverley sawmill could rise again, buyer says
Waverley could get a whole new sawmill if Spectrum Group can buy enough forest in the area