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Landscape and rainfall
Authors: Jeremy MansellPublication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2010, Issue N.Z.J.For. 55(4) 2011, pp 10, Jan 2011
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: My name is Jeremy Mansell and I have lived in South Australia in the Green Triangle (GT) region for nearly three years working as a district forester. I am from Otaki in the Horowhenua and finished a forestry degree and Masters at Canterbury in 2006. The biggest difference apparent to me between forestry in NZ and Aus is landscape and rainfall. Australia’s vast landscape has been one contributing factor to the success of forestry in the GT. As in NZ the easy productive country in the GT was snapped up for the purposes of farming or cropping leaving the marginal country for forestry. The difference being that in the GT the marginal country is, at worst, rolling hill country in NZ terms. This has meant that production systems for establishment, management and harvesting of plantations have become very efficient and cost-effective, resulting in a very profitable plantation industry.