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GREEN TRIANGLE REGION REFERENCE MATERIAL
The Green Triangle Regional Plantation Committee has commissioned and documented various projects based on the forestry and plantation industry in the Green Triangle region.
Plantation Timbers provides access to these reports. If you have difficulty in downloading the files, please contact Plantation Timbers and we will endeavour to forward the relevant files.
REGIONAL WOOD FLOW
In collaboration with regional plantation growers, the South East Resources Information Centre SERIC) has developed a wood flow model that can identify the annual volume/tonnage of wood moving from the plantations to any point on the transport network in the region.
GTRPC Wood Flow Brochure 2009.pdf
BIODIVERSITY
The Green Triangle Regional Plantation Committee commissioned Greening Australia to undertake two projects.
The first was to collate a series of case studies that various plantation growers had undertaken to integrate natural biodiversity into their plantations.
Protecting and enhancing biodiversity in a plantation landscape.pdf
The second project was a major assessment of the SERIC Geographic Information System database to identify areas of existing native vegetation and those areas which could be revegetated to provide an expanded area of native biodiversity and to speculate on expanding landscape scale links across the region.
Full Report:
Identifying the biodiversity attributes of the plantation estate in the Green Triangle.pdf (8.7 Mbytes)
Summary Brochure:
Biodiversity Report Native Vegetation Summary Brochure 2008.pdf (3.7 Mbytes)
FORESTRY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE GREEN TRIANGLE REGION ECONOMY AND EMPLOYMENT
A joint Green Triangle Regional Plantation Committee and ForestrySA project by Econsearch identified that forestry contributed over $778 million to gross regional product in 2003/04; 16% of the total regional economy and 30% of the total primary production for the region; off about 10% of the land base.
In addition, forestry and processing provided 12% of the total jobs in the Green Triangle region, and about 23% of all employment in the region’s primary industries. Directly and indirectly the industry employed 8,765, of which approximately 830 were in the forestry sector, with flow-on indirect employment totalling almost 4,600 jobs.
Forestry economic+employment contributions Green Triangle.pdf
GOOD NEIGHBOUR CHARTER
The GTRPC has produced a Good Neighbour Charter enhance communication between commercial growers, neighbours and the community to develop partnerships to address local and regional issues of mutual concern.
Many growers are already parties to national and international certification systems that recognise the importance of local economic, social and environmental issues. Commercial tree growing operates in a highly regulated environment which includes specialist Codes of Practice, planning regulations and policies. The attached file describes the growers commitments to their neighbours, the community and the environment.
GTRPC Good Neighbour Brochure.pdf (351 KB)
Pest Alert - Myrtle Rust
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Myrtle Rust Detection
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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS AND ADAPTION RESPONSES FOR SOUTH-WEST VICTORIA'S PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
The Department of Primary Industries Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Project team has published a discussion paper on the potential impacts of various scenarios of Climate Change on the south west of Victoria. The paper also discusses possible responses and adaptations individuals may consider.
You may download the report here.
DPI VCCAP Discussion Paper 2010
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