Australian Wood Review

From Seed to Tree to Product

The roughly triangular region that runs from Lismore to Ballina to Brunswick Heads was once described as The Big Scrub. Once subtropical rainforest, this 75,000 hectare area was largely cleared in the 1800s for dairy farming. Now, those forests are slowly returning, in the form of private plantings of the rainforest species that once grew freely there.

Sunday April 15, 2018 in Federal, NSW was a picture-perfect day. Blue skies, rolling hills, green and forested,

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