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TOTSWC Newsletter – Issue #6 – December 2025
TOTSWC Newsletter December 2025 #6 The 2025 year has brought some significant challenges to the TOTS forest industry with mid-year floods across the region followed by a significant windthrow event in the Tasman district. This coupled with closure of the CHH sawmill in the region and declining log export prices, has certainly made it a…
Top of the South Wood Council Forestry Awards 2026
Following the departure of Public Impressions, who successfully delivered the Top of the South Forestry Awards over the past few years, TOTSWC is pleased to announce it has now taken over the management of this important industry event. We’ve appointed Julia Brown as our new event coordinator and are currently working to bring all aspects…
TOTSWC Newsletter – Issue # 5 – June 2025
In addition to log export and domestic prices being in the doldrums our industry remains very busy dealing with continuing changes to environmental and carbon legislation and public perception relating to these. Recently I attended the annual NZ Institute of Forestry conference in Napier where 280 foresters listened to a wide range of presentations on…
2025 Port Marlborough – Marlborough Environment Awards: Forestry Category Winner
We’re proud to share that the Top of the South Wood Council was named the Forestry Category Winner at the 2025 Port Marlborough Environment Awards for its entry showcasing work under Te Hoiere Project. The judges commended TOTSWC for its leadership in fostering environmental improvements within production forestry landscapes. The entry highlighted a suite of…
Te Hoiere Project
Te Hoiere Project is a collaborative project which is working with the whole community to carry out landscape scale restoration projects to increase catchment health and put measures in place to prevent further degradation. TOTSWC is proud to support this project in an area where many of our members work, live, recreate and visit. Top…
Hall of Fame 2024 – Doug McLeod
Doug McLeod is a true pioneer in the forestry industry, making an enormous impact on harvesting in the Nelson Region and beyond. His journey began as a labourer in Ngamu Forest, and since then, his dedication and passion for the industry have shone through every step of his career. Throughout Doug’s time as a Golden…
Climate Action Week Marlborough 2024
Top of the South Wood Council is a proud supporter of Climate Action Week Marlborough. Climate Action Week Marlborough has been designed to create awareness, develop Marlborough’s business community’s knowledge by embracing education, and take action towards creating a low carbon emissions, highly productive, and thriving community. We will facilitate a Roundtable Session on the…
Marlborough Forestry Hackathon
This is the first forestry hackathon to take place in NZ but not the last! – Full report of the event coming. Recently, forestry has been in the news, rightly or wrongly—and forestry slash even more so. This high-value industry is important for Te Tau Ihu on many levels, and the forestry and wood processing…
MBC Forestry 200 class site visit
Report from Marlborough Boys College Forestry 200 class site visit with MR Forestlands and Kelly Logging Ltd. After a long dusty trip up through Chestnut Forest, we reached the skid site with amazing views down over the Marlborough plains. We observed the crew hauling felled trees up the hillside, transporting them up to the skid…
Tasman Pine Forests Slash Management
Story by James Middlewick, March 2023 The word slash is probably one of the most contentious in Aotearoa at the moment. Following the events of Cyclone Gabrielle management of slash is highly topical, especially as we experience more intense weather events. For those of you in the Top of the South we wanted to share…
