Forest Land Management Pty Ltd
Forestry with integrity
We grow healthy, productive forests that provide timber, habitat, amenity and social resilience.
Your empty paddock or un-managed forest is a blank canvas that could be producing a renewable resource and improving landscape sustainability.
Forest Land Management can help you plan, establish and manage your forest project so that it is successful, productive, and adds value to your property.
We specialise in the rehabilitation of degraded and challenging sites, using best practice systems to integrate healthy forests with your agricultural pursuits and lifestyle.
For All of Your Forest and Land Management Needs
Planning, establishment, maintenance, harvest management, monitoring, compliance.
What we do
Forest Planning
Forest Management Planning is an important stage in your project development. An effective plan ensures that your vision and ideas are compatible with your property and the biological needs of the forest. Planning covers due diligence, compliance, risk management, project design, operational considerations and long-term forest maintenance.
Planted Forest Establishment
Forest Land Management use innovative, best practice site preparation and forest establishment technology to ensure high survival rates and healthy tree development. Attention to detail and investment in best-practice establishment techniques ensures that your forest grows quickly through the highest risk phase of forest development.
Planted Forest Management
Planted forests need on-going weed control, access and form pruning, fire protection, thinning and health monitoring. Whether you plant for environmental or commercial outcomes, the success of your project will be dependent on the timely and consistent application of your maintenance plan.
Native Forest Management
Native Forest Management (NFM) involves a wide range of processes, from assessment and planning, to infrastructure development, weed and fire management, tree selection, harvesting and marketing. Our extensive experience, across all aspects of the forest industry can help you to manage your native forest sustainably and productively.
Monitoring and assessment
Forest assessment and valuations, habitat quality assessments, BioCondition assessments, forest health monitoring, vegetation offset planning.
Planted Forest Design
Your planted forest design should allow for easy and efficient maintenance, integration of existing landscape elements, and consideration for long-term access for fire management and harvesting.
Plantation Management
Weed control, lift and form pruning, pre-commercial and commercial thinning, roading, fencing and fire management, harvesting and marketing.
What is successful forest establishment?
High survival rates after planting.
Fast and effective growth and development.
Healthy and resilient trees.
About us
We’ve been establishing and managing successful commercial plantations and revegetation projects since 2000
Gary Clarke has 40 years’ experience in the Forest Industry: beginning with formal training and then 8 years work in the QLD Forestry Service; 10 years in timber procurement, processing and marketing; 20 years in native hardwood plantations, native forest management, revegetation projects and in community-based forestry education and development programs.
Kaara Shaw has 18 years’ experience in the Forest Industry, managing hardwood plantation and revegetation projects throughout south east Queensland. Kaara has extensive experience delivering community-based forestry education and development programs and in developing and managing forest certification systems. Kaara has a Bachelor of Applied Science majoring in Production Horticulture from the University of Queensland and a Postgraduate Certificate in Forest Ecosystem Science from the University of Melbourne.
Our Happy Clients
“Their careful planting techniques of selected species ensure the long term survival of those trees.”
I highly recommend the team of Kaara Shaw and Gary Clarke from Forest Land Management Pty Ltd. So knowledgeable, skilled, hardworking, honest and reliable. Apart from choosing species of trees to suit the soil, terrain, locality and possible future sale of trees, they also work out where you will need access tracks and water sources, and put in this infrastructure before they plant.More…
