Richard has 30 years' forestry experience. He has a
strong plantation and natural forest management background having
managed hardwood and softwood plantations in tropical and cool
temperate environments. He has managed large-scale plantation
establishment programs in Australia and in Indonesia.
He also has considerable experience with resource
scheduling, harvest planning and harvest management and has
supplied forest produce into sawmills, ply/veneer mills and pulp
mills. This experience includes mechanical and motor-manual
operations in Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. He has
been part of senior management teams in these forest industries and
has a good understanding of the economics of wood supply and wood
quality issues for processing facilities.
His forest management experience includes
management of forests on private, crown and customarily-owned land,
with forest tenure arrangements including corporate ownership and
control, joint venture management, and customary ownership of
forests.
He has experience in the processes required to
develop systems to assist forest operations to achieve
legislative compliance and industry-leading forest
management. His experience includes forest operations auditing
and compliance reporting.
Position: Service Line Leader, Forestry
Tel: 61 2 6253 1999
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