ForestLearning Field Trip
Forestry Industry Tour
Date:
Wednesday 11 January 2017
Leave:
Mercure, Brisbane
Accompanied by:
Tania Crosbie – ForestLearning Program Manager
Sean Ryan, Executive Officer, Private Forestry Service Queensland
7am
Bus leave from Mercure Brisbane
7:30
Arrive Salisbury Research Facility a dedicated wood products research
and development facility working with the forest products and construction
industries.
Salisbury Research Facility activities:
•
Processing - evaluation of forest resources for traditional and non-traditional
timber markets by providing processing and recovery information to forest
investors, growers, processors and forest product end users
•
Seasoning - exploring new and alternative methods of seasoning (or drying)
timber as well as optimising traditional methods to suit emerging resources
such as plantation hardwoods
•
Engineering - establishing mechanical properties for new species and
resources, and testing new products (for example, engineered products
such as laminated veneer lumber) and manufacturing techniques (for
example, joint design)
•
Utilisation - studying the recovery potential of different forest resources
within existing and new markets
•
Wood quality - providing test samples for analyses, including basic density,
extractive content and sapwood/heartwood proportions.
9:00
Leave Salisbury
10:00
Arrive Mutdapilly - 60 ha koala offset planting which is 12 months old.
You will be introduced to the systems and techniques uses for hardwood plantation
development and biodiversity management. There are often koalas on site.
11:00
Leave Mutdapilly
11:30
Arrive Fernvale Bakery for lunch
12:30
Leave Fernvale
1:00
Arrive Esk regrowth sites with permanent growth plots.
1:30
Leave Esk
2:15
Arrive Ravensbourne which is a high quality forest where you will
observe the impacts of a recent wild fire and compare that to an area that had a fuel
reduction burn a couple of months earlier.
3:00
Leave Ravensbourne for Brisbane
5:00
Arrive Brisbane