Forestry Tasmania

Forestry Tasmania (FT) is a Tasmanian government-owned forestry company with the Board of Directors "responsible directly to the Minister for Energy and Resources for its operations." As of January 2010, David Llewellyn is the Minister for Energy and Resources.

On its website FT states that "our operations are independently certified under the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) which sets stringent environmental, social and economic criteria for forest management and production tracking."

Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of Forestry Tasmania are, as of May 2009 :


 * Adrian Kloeden, Chairman
 * Deborah Radford
 * Miles Hampton
 * Geoff Coffey
 * Bob Gordon, Managing Director

General Management Team
The senior managers of Forestry Tasmania are, as of May 2009 :


 * Bob Gordon, Managing Director
 * Hans Drielsma, Executive General Manager
 * Paul Smith, General Manager Operations
 * Ken Jeffreys, General Manager, Corporate Relations and Tourism
 * Penny Egan, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary to the Board
 * Michael Wood, Assistant General Manager, Strategic Business
 * Steve Whiteley, Assistant General Manager, Operations and Special Species Timbers
 * Lily Burgess, Human Resources Manager.

Other staff

 * Martin Moroni, research scientist in forest carbon in FT's Division of Forestry Research and Development (DFRD)

Contact Details
79 Melville Street Hobart, Tasmania - 7000 Phone: (03) 6233 8203 Fax: (03) 6233 8444 Email: forestry.tasmania AT forestrytas.com.au Website: http://www.forestrytas.com.au/

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Community Assist Program
 * Forestry Tasmania and Forest Stewardship Council certification
 * Forestry Tasmania and the Freedom of Information Act
 * Forestry Tasmania and forest carbon storage
 * Forestry Tasmania and its Ecotourism Australia membership
 * Going Bush
 * Gunns
 * Southern Cross Television

Forestry Tasmania Annual Reports

 * Forestry Tasmania, Forestry Tasmania Annual Report 2003-2004, October 2004.
 * Forestry Tasmania, Forestry Tasmania Annual Report 2004-2005, October 2005.
 * Forestry Tasmania, Forestry Tasmania Annual Report 2006/07, October 2007.
 * Forestry Tasmania, Forestry Tasmania Annual Report 2007/08, October 2008.

Freedom of Information Requests

 * Forestry Tasmania, "Freedom of Information Requests", Forestry Tasmania website.

FT Media Releases

 * Forestry Tasmania, "The battered brief case is gone", Media Release, June 1, 2007.

External Articles

 * Matthew Denholm, "Fears of ruin for Tarkine forest and eco-tourism in wilderness road battle", The Australian, November 15, 2008.
 * Michelle Paine, "More Tarkine road opposition", The Mercury, November 17, 2008.
 * Helen Kempton, "Rebuff for Forestry road", The Mercury, November 26, 2008.
 * "Bartlett to inspect proposed Tarkine road", ABC Online, November 28, 2008.
 * "Tarkine plan in plane sight", ''The Mercury, November 29, 2008, page 19. (Not online).