Timber industry’s race against the clock

Logs burned by the Dunns Road fire are sent into a Reducing Bandsaw at AKD’s Greenmill, the first step in cutting down the logs. Thirty thousand hectares of Forestry Corporation land burnt. Thirty-nine crews currently harvesting timber (up from 23 before the fires). Twelve to 18 months before the fire damage makes the logs unusable….

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