Upcoming Events in Victoria
Victorian Annual Meeting
Forestry Australia’s President Dr Michelle Freeman and Forestry Australia’s CEO, Jacquie Martin will update members on national developments in Forestry Australia. The Chair of the Victorian Branch Professor Rod Keenan will provide a review of Victorian activities. The incoming Branch committee members for 2024-2026 will be introduced and members will have the opportunity to present ideas for activities in 2024 and beyond.
Chris McEvoy from Radial Timbers will also provide a short presentation on recent developments with small diameter hardwood log processing.
Location: The Last Jar Hotel & Online
Cost: Free
In person:
Last Jar Hotel (Upstairs Dining Room)
616 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Date: Thursday 23 November 2023
Time: 5:00pm to 7:30pm. The meeting will commence at 5:30 pm(AEDT)
Dinner & Drinks: at own cost, please advise if you are staying for dinner when you register.
Online:
You will receive Zoom meeting details and link when you register.
Date: Thursday 23 November 2023
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30pm(AEDT)
Registrations close: 10.00am Thursday 23 November.
Past Events
FFORNE AGM
Date: Sunday 19 November | Time: 12:00pm
FIELD TRIP: Forestry and active management for biodiversity
Date: Saturday 7 October
Networking Event: Urban Forestry
Date: Thursday 21 September
Speaker: Kelly Hertzog, Manager, Urban Forest and Ecology, City of Melbourne
Victorian Forestry: Where to next?
Discussions around the ongoing impacts of and response to the Victorian Government decision to close native forestry in December 2023
Date: Thursday 20 July
VIC Field Trip: Opportunities for agroforestry and utilising plantation grown hardwoods in Gippsland
Date: Saturday 29 April
VIC: Networking Event
WithOneSeed Project, East Timor. Presentation by Andrew Mahar, AM
Date: Thursday 23 February 2023
End of Year Celebration & Seminar
Increasing productivity and value of Victoria’s forest plantations through tree breeding: past, present and future.
Date: Thursday 8 December 2022
Open Day: Farm Forestry at Brimin Lodge, NE Victoria
Date: Sunday 9 October 2022
Networking Event: Australia’s Timber Supply
Australia’s Timber Supply: The role of imports, impacts of war and what do we do now?
Date: Thursday 8 September 2022
File Trip & Demostration: CERES Fair wood
Gippsland Agroforestry Network (GAN)
Date: Wednesday 15 June 2022
Field Trip: Strathbogie
Farm Forestry North-East (FFORNE)
Date: Saturday 4 June 2022
Field Trip: Forest Pest Management Research Consortium – Gippsland
Date: Thursday 21 May 2022
Networking Event: Warragul
Gippsland Plantations and Investment
Date: Thursday 16 December 2021