A Strategic Assessment of the Potential for Hardwood and Softwood Plantations in NSW

Systematic regional planning for multiple objective natural resource management

“…Cocks, 1984;Ive et al, 1989;Braithwaite et al, 1993;Recatala et al, 2000). Other studies have also demonstrated quantitative, integrated landscape-scale planning for achieving multiple natural resource management objectives in fields such as environmental management Hobbs et al, 1993;Hobbs and Saunders, 1993;Cresswell et al, 2004;Hajkowicz et al, 2005;Hill et al, 2005;Crossman and Bryan, 2006;Crossman et al, 2007), forestry (Gustafson et al, 2000;Bugg et al, 2002;Bettinger et al, 2005), and agricultural resource management (Hayashi, 2000).…”

Eucalypts as a biofuel feedstock

“…Evaluation of the capacity and availability of northern Australia as a region for biomass production has been carried out at a broad-scale, and those studies conducted so far indicate there could be substantial land available. A state-wide analysis of land suitable for tree planting activities in NSW indicated 6.3 million ha could be available for conventional timber plantings, most of which is in the western and dryland areas [154,155]. Similar state-wide analysis is not available for Queensland, but analysis of the land-base available for timber plantations in south east Queensland and modeling of the land base required for bioenergy production from woody species in the region suggests there is potential for adequate feedstock to supply a mediumscale bioenergy plant from this region alone [156,157].…”