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Plantation Forestry in the South West Slopes Region (NSW)

Plantation Forestry in the South West Slopes Region (NSW). Presentation by Christopher Adams General Manager Tumut Shire Council. Tumut Shire Statistics. Area 4600sq km Population 11500 Towns are Tumut, Batlow, Adelong, Talbingo, Cabramurra, Brungle Council budget in 2006/07 $30M.

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Plantation Forestry in the South West Slopes Region (NSW)

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  1. Plantation Forestry in the South West Slopes Region (NSW) Presentation by Christopher Adams General Manager Tumut Shire Council

  2. Tumut Shire Statistics • Area 4600sq km • Population 11500 • Towns are Tumut, Batlow, Adelong, Talbingo, Cabramurra, Brungle • Council budget in 2006/07 $30M. • Economy based on plantation timber, power, water, horticulture, tourism, sheep/cattle • 62.3% of the Shire is non rateable

  3. Mainly Pinus Radiata 116,300 hectares on SW Slopes 62,500ha Murray region of Victoria 74% publicly owned, 26% privately owned Plantations in Tumut, Tumbarumba, Greater Hume and Gundagai Shires Processing centres in Tumut, Wagga Wagga, Tumbarumba, Albury. Only fully integrated timber industry in Australia. Direct employment – 1680 jobs Indirect jobs – 3,250 Overview of the Plantation Industry

  4. Processors • Tumut – Visy (paper), Weyerhaeuser (sawn timber), Carter Holt Harvey (panels) • Tumbarumba – Hyne (sawn timber) • Wagga Wagga – Ausply (ply and laminated beams) • Albury – Norske Skog (newsprint)

  5. Areas of Softwood Plantation in 2004

  6. Volume of timber transported in the SWS (‘000 tonnes or cubic metres)

  7. Employment • Has remained relatively steady, despite increases in production • Over 95% full time employment • 5% part time or casual • 2003 – 2004, 66% direct employment • 90% of direct jobs in the region • Tumut – over 900 jobs • Tumbarumba – over 200 jobs • One new job in region for every 63ha of new plantation

  8. Socioeconomic Change and the Plantation Industry

  9. Socio-Demographic Change and the Plantation Industry • Small towns with strong timber presence had higher population growth • Stronger growth in working age population • More consistent growth in household income • Communities were becoming more highly qualified

  10. Forest Production Vs other Agricultural Production • Plantation Pine 20 t/ha/a • Plantation hardwood 22 t/ha/a • Rice (irrigated) 9 t/ha/a • Wheat (dryland) 5 t/ha/a • Apples 25 t/ha/a • Grapes 15 t/ha/a • Milk 14 t/ha/a • Sheep 0.7t/ha/a • Cattle 0.75t/ha/a

  11. Production from hypothetical 1000 ha plantation • First thinning, age 13 years 132,000t all pulpwood • Second thinning, age 23 years, 165,000t mix of pulp wood and sawlog • Harvest, age 33 years, 363,000t, mainly sawlog • Total production from plantation 660,000t

  12. Forest Resources in the South West Slopes

  13. Forest Product Processing in the South West Slopes Region

  14. Resource Utilisation (present) South West Slopes: • Total of 1.87 million m3 forest resources • 964,450 m3 of sawlogs • 907,000 m3 pulpwood Outside Region • 266,750 m3 of sawlogs and pulpwood and • 87,250 m3 of sawmill residues

  15. Current and Planned Investment in Wood Processing

  16. Regional Plantation Development • Availability of softwood resources expected to be inadequate to meet the demand for wood resources • New plantings required of 2,500 – 3,500 ha over the next 10 – 15 years across public and privately owned plantations • Plantation owners: Forests NSW, Willmotts, Gunns, Hume Forests

  17. Future Timber Demand • Vision 2020 – trebling of Australias plantation timber resource by 2020 • Current softwood supply 8M cu m rising to 10 M cu m by 2020 • Domestic demand is expected to be 12 M cu m by 2020. • Shortfall met by imports

  18. Asia/Pacific Demand for Timber Products • Paper products increasing at 3.8% pa • Panels increasing at 3.1% pa • Sawn timber increasing at 1% pa

  19. Asia/Pacific Supply • Currently a 21M cu m shortfall in production • Deforestation occurring at 3.9 to 4.5 M ha pa

  20. Australian Softwood Sawlog Availability

  21. One Radiata Pine Rotation Projected Softwood Timber Consumption

  22. Other Future Changes? • Climate change • Carbon trading/sequestration • Salt credits • Mass limits on transport vehicles • Configurations of transport vehicles

  23. Strategic Road Network

  24. Detailed Road Network

  25. Transport Impact of Visy’s Expansion Plans

  26. Actions to Date • Softwoods Working Party been going for over 20 years – log haul strategies, socio economic studies, economic studies of transport routes. • Roads to Recovery applications for projects across the region • Lobbying - $5M from Feds in 1999; $4M from State in 2003 • Auslink application for reopening of Rail • Seats membership?

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