Forestry Tasmania Revenue and Competitors

Forestry Tasmania is responsible for managing Tasmania’s Permanent Timber Production Zone land to meet current and future needs. Our key purpose is to sustainably supply high quality native forest and plantation sawlogs and other forest products to Tasmanian and overseas customers. Forestry Tasmania is a Tasmanian Government Business Enterprise responsible under State legislation for: - sustainably managing approximately 800,000 hectares of public production forest (Permanent Timber Production Zone land) for the benefit of current and future generations. - undertaking forest operations for the production and sale of forest products from these forests (including at least 137,000 cubic metres of high quality sawlogs and veneer logs per annum) By doing these things and contributing to policy development and implementation, Forestry Tasmania aims to provide the foundation for a strong, competitive and sustainable Tasmanian forest industry. What we do Forestry Tasmania’s key activities include: - land and forest management (including research, forest inventory, resource mapping and modelling) - native forest and plantation harvesting and re-establishment - sale of high quality sawlogs, peeler billets, specialty timbers and log residues to domestic and/or international customers - plantation establishment and management - fire fighting and fuel reduction burning - road construction and maintenance - industry and market development - forest based tourism Forestry Tasmania also provides professional and technical services to other landowners and forest managers in Australia and overseas. Native Forest Manager, Engineered wood product development, Plantation Manager, Native Forest Silviculture, Forestry Services International