The Support Plantation Establishment program is helping establish new long-rotation softwood and hardwood plantation forests across Australia.
These case studies tell the stories of the grantees and their projects that will deliver Australia’s future forest products.
Forestry Corporation of New South Wales
(Duration 1 mins 49 secs)
Introduction
This is the transcript of a video case study produced by the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry as part of the Support Plantation Establishment Program. It was filmed with the Forestry Corporation of NSW on-site in Oberon, NSW in 2024.
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The Support Plantation Establishment Program is a $73.76 million Australian Government Grant Program
The funding supports the establishment of new long-rotation softwood and hardwood plantation forests across Australia
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The Forestry Corporation of NSW were awarded $2.54 million in funding to support the establishment of over 1,200 hectares of new plantation forests
Claire Kirby: The Forestry Corporation of NSW here in the Central West manage about 80,000 hectares of radiata pine plantation.
We’re in our Dog Rocks State Forest at the moment and we’re surrounded by mature plantation.
For over 100 years, Forestry Corporation have been planting Pinus Radiata in the Central West. It’s a good growing species for this area because of our elevation and our annual rainfall and the seedlings like the growing conditions here.
The grant funds help with the establishment activities that will occur to establish the pine plantation.
So to establish a new plantation requires specialised site preparation contractors who drive dozers and excavators to cultivate the soil. We have specialised contractors who will do our weed control, and that will be by a tractor-based system. Then our planting contractors will come in and do the manual hand-planting of the seedlings.
So we plant the seedlings during winter in July and August where soil moisture conditions are suitable for the establishment of the seedlings early on.
The grant funding that we have been issued today is setting us up for the future so that we can establish plantations now which will then be used for the future demand for timber products in thirty years time.
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Applications are open for grant round three of the Support Plantation Establishment program.
Find out more and apply at GrantConnect.
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