PART C: ECOLOGICAL FORESTRY

For Helle and Claudia Janssen, forestry is a problem but also a solution.

They want to establish forests with permanent canopies – yet still harvest timber – to offset the ecological footprint of communities and industries such as radiata forestry, viticulture and aquaculture.

The couple set up Reciprocate Biocapacity . . . → Read More: Seeing Forests for more than the Trees – Part C

PART B: THE PICTURE-PERFECT PINE PLANTATION

Hillersden Forest- a good example of environmentally friendly radiata forestry.

Vern Harris has a different slant on pine forests using a wine analogy. Saying Marlborough has too much pine is akin to saying it has too much sauvignon Warm, “but every industry needs its cash . . . → Read More: Seeing Forests for more than the Trees – Part B

PART A : INTRODUCTION & THE INTERGENERATIONAL BOUTIQUE FOREST

A wall of green slices the Wairau Valley as regimented pine trees march up a hill. In the Rai Valley, a boutique forest’s mixed-species trees are nurtured for their amenity value now, and their potential as high-value building timber in the future. Meanwhile, . . . → Read More: Seeing Forests for more than the Trees – Part A

‘Greener Horizons’ – is a Video story of  5 Western Australian farmers telling their stories of how tree crops can improve the sustainability of their farms, their communities and the landscape.

In Western Australia lies an area twice the size of Tasmania, called the Avon Wheatbelt. Of the 12 million hectares of land, approximately . . . → Read More: Green horizons – the video story of five WA Farmers and their tree crops