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Eucalypt plantations only successful as pulpwood tree farms? Bullshit!

Gustavo Iglesias Trabado

GIT Forestry Consulting - Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal - www.git-forestry.com - EUCALYPTOLOGICS

The Australian Government statutory corporation RIRDC (Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation) has just released a new publication on Eucalyptus timber production that should be of interest for public and private investors in all those areas of the world where the Australian trees have become an important forestry resource.

Plantation Eucalypts for High Value Timber 2007 Conference, a Woollybutt Initiative / Conferencia Plantaciones de Eucalipto para Madera de Alto Valor 2007, una iniciativa de Woollybutt / Chris Beadle / Jon Lambert / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado / GIT Forestry Consulting, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo

Plantation Eucalypts for High-Value Timber: Enhancing investment through R+D.
Proceedings of the Plantation Eucalypts for High Value Timber 2007 Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
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Fig 1: Eucalyptus polyculture: pasture plus pruned and thinned trees producing high value logs following a multi-product agroforestry management regime. (Click image to enlarge)

Innovative farmers and forestry enterprises down under in Australia and New Zealand have been consistently proving for a time that eucalypts, these highly diverse trees by number of species, growth habits, yield of products or externalities, are also a source of diversity in what to sustainable forestry management and tree farms and their products refers.

Fig. 2: Jon Lambert's forestry investment advisor firm Woollybutt Pty Ltd is one of the main promoters of sustainable High Value Eucalyptus timber productive plantations among farmers in Victoria. Here we see them inspecting a Corymbia maculata hardwood eucalypt plantation for high value timber log production, also managed for simultaneous pasture production. (Click image to enlarge)

Currently, examples of Eucalyptus plantations managed under mixed timber production management plans (aiming for instance to a combination of pulpwood plus solid wood) spread through countries in four continents, in many cases contributing to the diversification of timber productive units within technified farms following agroforestry principles. When properly designed and implemented, they can become a very clever and successful way to integrate tree farming in overal farming schemes, and it is especially in these cases when the concepts of polyculture, sustainable forestry, multiple production, high quality and value timber, silvopastoralism, farm forestry and organic farming become directly involved with Eucalyptus. As with many other types of trees.

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The Australian and some of the New Zealander state of the art experience in this wonderful type of Eucalyptus tree farming has been put together at the Plantation Eucalypts for High Value Timber 2007 Conference, where experts from industry, academic research, governmental agencies, forestry management companies and farm forestry investors offered their latest findings, which have now taken the form of these proceedings.

Speakers include well renowned international and national experts as Vince Erasmus (ITC Forestry Ltd), Clinton Tepper (Woollybutt Pty Ltd), Peter Volker (Forestry Tasmania, CRC for Forestry), David Quill (Eumeralla Pty Ltd), Russell Washusen (CSIRO-Ensis), Tony Cannon (Forest Enterprises Australia Pty Ltd), Trevor Innes (FEA Timber Pty Ltd), Martin Grealy (Forests NSW), David Bush (CSIRO-Ensis), Craig Taylor (The Fifth Estate Consultancy Pty Ltd), and Rodney Keenan (The University of Melbourne).

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