FORESTRY DRIVING VALUE AND GROWTH IN NORTHLAND

Northland's economy could see significant future economic and environmental gains from  harvesting, and the potential commercial use, of tōtara.  

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Phase one of the Tōtara Industry Pilot has shown there is enough Totara on private and  Māori-owned land in the region...

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Tōtara logs from two Northland farms have been harvested selectively under a ‘continuous cover’ forestry
model and milled as part of a two-year project to assess whether the native tree can be harvested
sustainably for commercial use. The Northland Tōtara Industry Pilot (TIP) project’s second harvest saw 200 m 3 of farm-tōtara taken from two sites near Kawakawa ...

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JSC Timbers of Riverhead has placed the first commercial order for farm tōtara timber harvested and milled as part of a two-year study to test the practicality and commercial viability of a new industry based on regenerating farm-tōtara from private land in Northland.

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Family politics, a 120-year-old love story and modern-day research to see if native wood can be harvested sustainably for commercial use have converged in an historic church in Northland’s Matauri Bay.

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The iconic Samuel Marsden Māori Anglican Church building is dedicated to the memory of Reverend Samuel Marsden...

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Project partners running a two-year study into the viability of a Northland tōtara timber industry have unveiled a website (www.totaraindustry.co.nz) to explain the project and its social, economic and environmental
objectives.

Tōtara timber from Northland farms is being harvested selectively under a ...

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