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Sustainable Timber Tasmania, formerly Forestry Tasmania, is a government business enterprise owned by the Government of Tasmania, Australia. It is responsible for the management of public production forest in Tasmania , which is about 800,000 hectares of crown land (public land) that is classified as 'permanent timber production zone'.
Government in Tasmania is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a government minister who is a member of the Parliament of Tasmania, appointed by the Governor as the representative of the Crown. The agencies are principally grouped as eight departments, each led by a secretary or director-general and comprising a number of ...
Waste Land Act (1863) - made it possible for further licensing for forest activities was possible after Van Diemen's Land become Tasmania in 1856. Waste Lands Act (1881) - provided for land reservation for the preservation of timber. In 1885 the State Forests Act preservation and policing were not well organised and the management of forests ...
The animal once thrived as a cornerstone species throughout Tasmania for millions of years before being eradicated with the help of the Australian government, which offered a one pound bounty per ...
Tasmanian oak [1] is a native Australian hardwood produced by any of three trees, Eucalyptus regnans, Eucalyptus obliqua or Eucalyptus delegatensis, when it is sourced from the Australian state of Tasmania. [2] Despite the common name "oak", none of the species are in the genus Quercus or the oak family Fagaceae.
A private timber reserve is an area of privately owned land, used or intended to be used, for growing timber within the Australian state of Tasmania. Landowners can have their land declared as a Private Timber Reserve and protect their right to use private land to grow timber.
Private Forests Tasmania is a Tasmanian government statutory authority established in 1994 by the Tasmanian Private Forests Act 1994. The Authority was created to provide assistance and advice on private forest management in Tasmania, Australia. The objectives of the authority are to facilitate and expand the development of the private forest ...
Founded in 1875 by brothers John and Thomas Gunn, it was one of Australia's oldest companies. It had over 900 square kilometres of plantations, mainly eucalyptus trees. In 2001 Gunns paid $335 million for Tasmania's biggest woodchip company, North Forest Products, making it Australia's biggest exporter of woodchips.