JOEL REED / RNZ
Location: Whanganui, New Zealand
Date: Started 2018 – Ongoing
Terrain: Steep
Infrastructure
– Hauler Operation
– 34 sites, 2 stage tracking 3.3kms
– Average Production 196 tonnes per day
“Every step of the way they optimised and minimised the safety risk which was a big one for us.”
Background
- Block Size: 380Ha
- RNZ Forest Block was purchased in 2010
- RNZ used NZ based forestry advisors Forme and Bell Bully to do the due dilegence
- Tendered to three Forestry Management companies
Response
- Forest360 advised RNZ that timber prices were good and waiting for additional growth added negligible returns
- In addition to this, the volume of timber hitting the market from 1990 plantings was predicted to increase supply
- Decision was made in 2015 to harvest and market the forest
