This year Johnson Forestry Services has started a Forestry Pathways Course, with the help of Tokomairiro Training, based out of Tokomairiro High School. The course is run for two days each week over a 32-week period and is supported by local forestry companies. It...
Wenita was pleased to have some of our crews and staff recognised at the Southern Wood Council’s annual Forestry Awards at the Forsyth Barr Stadium on Friday, May 24. Forestry managers, contractors, transport operators and service and product suppliers gathered to...
The 2019 winter planting season is almost upon us, although ground conditions are still drier than we would like. Hopefully we get some good rain in the next couple of weeks, so that we can start planting before the end of May. This year we will plant cutover areas at...
Over the last few months, Wenita has employed Water Ways Consulting principal ecologist Richard Allibone to undertake a project within the Wenita Estate, surveying what native fish are present in the streams and waterways. Both the dusky galaxiid and the Eldons...
Wenita has joined a group of local forest companies to commission a LiDAR survey over forests in Otago. Participating companies also include City Forests, Ernslaw One, Rayonier and Port Blakely. LiDAR is an acronym for “light detection and ranging” and is sometimes...
The third breeding season of the joint research project has seen mixed success. A higher proportion of nests have failed, for a variety of reasons; the wetter weather has almost certainly been a factor. Approximately 20 chicks have been banded from 10 different...
