Conferences and Workshops

TĀNE'S TREE TRUST 2009 CONFERENCE

Tāne's Tree Trust Tenth Anniversary Conference

• Tāne's Tree Trust held a highly successful conference at The University of Waikato in November 2009 to mark the ten years since the concept of the Trust was promoted.
• The conference theme was Managing native trees – toward a national strategy and the objectives of the conference were to review the activities with indigenous trees over the past ten years, debate and resolve some of the current impediments and to set targets for the future.
• Tāne's Tree Trust and the Conference Committee acknowledge sponsorship of and support for the Conference from the following organisations:
  • Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's Sustainable Farming Fund
  • Scion
  • Future Forests Research
  • Deed Printing
  • Commonwealth Forestry Association
  • Indigenous Section of the NZ Farm Forestry Association
  • Environment Waikato
  • NZ Landcare Trust
  • Northland Regional Council
  • Naturally Native New Zealand Plants
  • Greater Wellington Regional Council

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Conference Proceedings - content

• The conference proceedings were published in late 2010:
  • Barton, I.; Gadgil, R.; Bergin, D. 2010: Managing natives trees. Towards a national strategy. Proceedings of the Tāne's Tree Trust 10th anniversary conference and workshops held at The University of Waikato, 18-20 November 2009. Tāne's Tree Trust. 135p.
• Over 30 presentations as full papers or abstracts are included in the proceedings including contributions and discussion at four workshops

Conference papers
1 Introduction to Tāne's Tree Trust Ten Year Conference
2 Opening address Tāne's Tree Trust Conference, 18 – 20 November 2009
3 Forests and timber: past mismanagement and future opportunities
4 Using native forests to take CO2 out of the atmosphere
5 Non-wood values of planted indigenous forest
6 Tāne's Tree Trust activities and projects – What has been achieved in the last 10 years
7 Workshop 1 Introduction – Making most of weeds -Totara and beech
8 A role for totara in rural production landscapes
9 Selling Aspiration
10 Thinning and pruning of naturally-regenerating totara stands on farms, Northland, NZ.
11 Specific Forests Act issues arising from conference
12 An iwi perspective on indigenous forestry
13 Workshop 1 summary
14 Workshop 2 Introduction – Economic establishment of natives
15 Reducing cost of establishing native plants in the Lake Taupo catchment
16 Options For Successful Establishment Of Natives
17 A survey of native plant nursery and establishment practitioner experiences
18 Open-ground and container-raised indigenous plants comparison
19 The place of native trees in the NZ forestry landscape
20 Workshop 2 summary
21 Workshop 3 Introduction – Ecosourcing
22 Why I believe in ecosourcing
23 Are current restoration practices capturing levels of genetypic diversity observed in the wild
24 Planting indigenous forests for timber – a production perspective
25 Workshop 3 summary
26 Workshop 4 Introduction – Research
27 An overview of Scion activities
28 A strategic approach: current thinking about investment in indigenous forestry
29 Research on indigenous forestry
30 Workshop 4 summary
31 Report on Plenary Session of Tāne's Tree Trust conference: Towards a National Strategy.
32 TTT fieldtrip report

Conference Proceedings – AVAILABLE NOW!

• A free copy of the proceedings has been sent to all conference attendees – please contact Ian Barton if you didn't get your copy.
• Copies of the Proceedings are for sale:
  • TTT members price
  • Non-members price