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• Update to the Forest Owners Association Road Engineering Manual: Forest Road Design for HPMVs.
  Thursday, September 19, 2024
  The NZFOA/NZFFA Transport and Logistics committee is pleased to announce the release of a new appendix to the New Zealand Forest Owners Road Engineering Manual, titled Forest Roads for High…
• Emissions Trading Scheme fee review a relief for cost-struck foresters
  Thursday, February 29, 2024
  The New Zealand Forest Owners Association says the review of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) fees is a relief for foresters facing excessive costs and loss of climate change action. …
• Planting trees on pasture can have a positive impact on soil health
  Wednesday, December 20, 2023
  Rather than damaging soil in New Zealand, planting trees on pasture restores soil to be similar to its original condition. A recent news story highlighting changes in soils from converting…
• Forest plantation soils have benefits too
  Tuesday, December 19, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says the fact that soils under plantation forests are similar to soils under native trees, does not make them damaged, as a recent Newshub report has claimed.…
• Wilding Conifers - A legacy issue that needs continued, collaborative management
  Sunday, October 29, 2023
  Forest owners welcome the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s (PCE) acknowledgement that the presence of wilding conifers across New Zealand is largely a legacy issue, but caution against placing costs…
• Stock take of the commercially viable alternatives to Pinus radiata
  Tuesday, October 03, 2023
  Scion has published a “Stock Take of the Commercially Viable Alternatives to Pinus Radiata” for MPI, which reviews alternative species, their expected growth rates, climatic range, resilience to pests or…
• SNA regulations 'confusing ecological naivety'
  Thursday, July 06, 2023
  Forest Owners say the just released National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB) is a classic bureaucratic formula of confusing ecological naivety which will not help rare species and likely…
• Primary sector leadership not addressing economics as the real climate change issue
  Tuesday, July 04, 2023
  The immediate past president of the Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA) says the leaders of the primary sector and government are ineffectively tinkering with lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Graham West says the…
• Forest Owners hail ‘Biosecurity Hero’
  Monday, May 22, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association and Scion want more people to report suspicious imported wood products which might be infested with introduced wood and forest pests.  FOA Biosecurity Manager, Brendan Gould,…
• Ministerial inquiry could have widespread implications for Tairawhiti community
  Tuesday, May 16, 2023
  The New Zealand Institute of Forestry says the just announced Tairawhiti land use inquiry is recommending measures which will stop the very activities which are vital for the region’s recovery.…
• Tairawhiti land use inquiry not addressing wider issues
  Sunday, May 14, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association says the Ministerial Inquiry into landuse in Tarawhiti has a core of practical recommendations, but has not addressed some more difficult and fundamental issues. President, Grant…
• Forest Owners say carbon-only forestry should be kept off productive land
  Wednesday, April 19, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association would like to see production forestry and farming on productive land – rather than this land used for carbon-only forests. It says this should be a…
• Opportunities from Trees Workshops - NZ Wide
  Wednesday, April 19, 2023
  The NZ Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA) is running 18 extension workshops in May and June with a target audience of landowners, or people with access to land, who are potential tree…
• Forest Owners back more trees for Tairawhiti
  Sunday, April 16, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association has told the Ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti, that the region’s future has to include more trees for land stability.  But it appreciates forest…
• Small scale woodlot owners have their say in Tairawhiti Land use Inquiry
  Sunday, April 02, 2023
  he outgoing President of the Farm Forestry Association says it has been vital for farm foresters to directly address the Ministerial Inquiry into forestry and other land use in Tairāwhiti.…
• Future forests need to be multifunctional to meet climate change in Tairawhiti
  Thursday, March 16, 2023
  The Farm Forestry Association says the just convened Ministerial Inquiry, into land-use across Tairāwhiti, needs to look closely at the tree options for shoring up vulnerable farm and former forest land in…
• Hill country farming campaign shows they think climate change is someone else’s problem
  Thursday, March 09, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association says the latest campaign against forestry, led by Beef+Lamb New Zealand and 50 Shades of Green, is climate change responsibility denial, and is dangerous in the…
• Forest Owners says two months too brief to look into the complex land issues in Tairawhiti.
  Thursday, February 23, 2023
  The Forest Owners Association says the two month long inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti doesn’t give enough time or depth to find solutions. The Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins has…
• Forest Owners want genetic technology approved
  Thursday, February 16, 2023
  The Forest Owners Organisation says New Zealand needs to concentrate on the safety of genetic technology on a case-by-case basis rather than persisting with blanket bans. The FOA wants approval…
• Fieldays Forestry Hub to demonstrate that forestry is a solution
  Monday, November 28, 2022
  A range of solutions to farmers’ current problems will be on display in the Fieldays Forestry Hub near Hamilton between 30 November and 3 December, says Farm Forestry Association president,…