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Industry contact list for Forest Internship Project
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Department of Forest and Ecosystem Sciences (DFES) are seeking interested organisations to submit their details to a contact registrar that will be used by students to help develop projects suitable for the subject Forest Internship Project as part of the Master of Forest and Ecosystem Science (SFES)...
read more... | Draft National Climate Change Adaption Research Plan
Thursday, 18 February 2010
preparing a number of National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plans to guide and coordinate national climate change adaptation research. These Plans identify critical gaps in the information that is required by governments, industry, and the community to address adaptation responses to climate change.
read more... | New Manual on Mixed Species Forestry
Thursday, 18 February 2010
The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) recently launched the second volume in a planned series of “silviculture reference manuals” which will eventually cover most of the important commercial forest types in Victorian State forests. This second manual covers the High Elevation Mixed Species (HEMS) forest type. (The first manual covered Mountain Ash.)
read more... | IFA World Forestry Day Events
Friday, 12 February 2010
Preparations are underway for the 2010 World Forestry Day!. See what is going on in your city...
read more... | Professor John Innes approved for RPF
Friday, 5 February 2010
Professor John Innes of West Vancouver BC Canada has been approved as an RPF in the specialist category of Forest Science and Research with expertise in Sustainable Forest Management...
read more... | IFA members recognised in Australia Day Honours list
Friday, 5 February 2010
The IFA is pleased to learn that two IFA members have been recognised in the recent Australia Day 2010 Honours list. Wayne Schmidt of Western Australia recognised with a Public Service Medal for ‘outstanding public service within the Parks and Visitor Services Division of Western Australia’s Department of Environment and Conservation’ and Neil Cooper of ACT has been recognised for ‘outstanding public service to the development of improved fire management programs within the Australian Capital Territory.
read more... | Centenary of forest education at Creswick 2010
Wednesday, 25 September 2009
One hundred years of forest education in Australia will be celebrated in 2010 in a series of events throughout Victoria - where it all started.
Coinciding as it does with a current set of relevant crises – not least unprecedented wildfires and water shortages – the centenary presents a wonderful opportunity to contemplate a very different scenario for the coming 100 years of forestry education, building on and celebrating the traditions and learnings from the past...
read more... | Landowner attitudes towards forest carbon sink implementation
Friday, 25 September 2009
The Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, The Hon Tony Burke MP, has announced that Dr Lyndall Bull (ANU) is one of the winners of a 2009 Science and Innovation Award for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Dr Bull’s award was sponsored by Forests and Wood Products Australia and has titled her project ‘Understanding how landowners feel about forest carbon sinks’. Reducing carbon emissions is one of the greatest global challenges of the century and in Australia, a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will commence on 1 July 2011. Within both regulatory and voluntary markets, landowners have the opportunity to sell carbon credits from reforestation activities. Lyndall will conduct a series of interviews and a pilot survey to gain knowledge of landowners understanding of the reforestation opportunity and their planting intentions.
Dr Bull hopes to provide policy makers with insight into the reforestation plans of landowners, which they can then use to develop appropriate policies to get the best benefits from reforestation activities.
| ACFA - A Division of the IFA
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The Association of Consulting Foresters of Australia (ACFA) was established in 1978 in response to the need to promote and protect the credibility and competence of Australia's consulting foresters.
Nowadays, both the public and private sectors need access to independent, objective and non-political assessments of current and proposed forest activities which are reliable and have the backing of a recognized professional association.
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