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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…
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…
