Pureora Forest Park is one of the largest remaining and most ecologically and culturally significant areas of the native forest that once clothed almost all the North Island of New Zealand. Systematic logging and the establishment of sawmilling villages began in the Pureora area in the late 1940s....

This study assesses the environmental and social impacts of a modified softwood produced using radiata pine sourced from New Zealand or Chile. The LCA found that differing forestry and transport burdens associated with each location broadly cancelled each other out, giving overall product...

This special issue contains 10 papers contains the report on the 2019 ANZIF (the Institute of Foresters of Australia and the New Zealand Institute of Forestry) conference held in Christchurch in August, along with Peter Clark's keynote paper and Julie Collins' paper from her Women in Forestry talk. ...

Wood stabilization and functionalization is a hot topic towards increasing the use of wood in buildings. Building construction and materials account for around 11% of the global CO₂ emissions, thus there is increasing interest in using wood to replace concrete, steel, and aluminium. However, the...

Tethered logging has been rapidly increasing in popularity in many regions following developments in Europe and New Zealand. The main application in Europe has focused on using an integral winch to assist harvesters and forwarders. In New Zealand, the application has focused on a remote winch to...

To model international trade of forest products we use a gravity model of trade. In modeling trade, we estimate the impact of importer gross domestic product (GDP), exporter GDP, and distance between trading partners using Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML). When estimating the log-linearized ...

Scion has researched the application of supercritical CO₂ to remove water from timber. For CO₂ to become a supercritical fluid, a pressure of 7.4 MPa and a temperature of 31°C is required. Timber species that have been treated include a range of New Zealand softwoods and hardwoods, with radiata...

Smoke can be generated by frictional heating where a plank of wood is pressed against a spinning wheel. Here, a plank of kānuka (12 × 12 × 150 mm), a common New Zealand food smoking wood, is pressed against a wheel (diameter 123 mm) with a knurled surface (asperities, 200 μm). Wheel speed...

In this paper we outline how geomorphological understanding has underpinned forest management in New Zealand's erodible steeplands, where it contributes to current forest management, and suggest where it will be of value in the future. We focus on the highly erodible soft-rock hill country of the...

This special issue contains 11 papers highlighting the differences and similarities in engineering code specifics between several geographic regions, namely Canada, Europe, New Zealand/Australia, and the USA and to a very limited degree Japan. The special issue focuses on critical engineering...