Media Releases

In November last year ForestrySA held a school photography competition for primary and secondary school students across the Limestone Coast. The judges were looking for photographs that captured all facets of our local forest industry from the trees in the forest to the final wood products.

A striking modern wooden sculpture entitled “Spinal Whorl II” has been named the winner of “Transformations”, ForestrySA’s Wood Sculpture Competition 2012. The competition and its accompanying exhibition sought to showcase contemporary art practices that employed wood as the dominant medium.

In 2004 the Riddoch Art Gallery launched its first wood sculpture competition, with ForestrySA becoming the major sponsor. Four exhibitions later and ForestrySA is still proud to be the sponsor of this event. The exhibition promotes the beauty and uses of wood, and assists in the cultural development of one of Australia’s most significant timber producing areas, the South East of South Australia.

Trees in the south east are now bound for the far, far west; the west of Australia that is. ForestrySA is excited to announce a contract has now been signed with the innovative ‘Western Poles Company’, suppliers of treated and natural wood poles.

ForestrySA and the Riddoch Art Gallery invite you to view a small exhibition at the Riddoch Art Gallery showcasing the local talent of the Limestone Coast’s junior photographers.

In February and March of each year, ForestrySA’s in-house research group tour the Green Triangle and Mount Lofty Ranges Regions with local operational staff to identify which herbicide prescriptions are most suitable to apply at each individual plantation site.

In today’s economic climate, it is rare to find a blue gum business model that continues to survive 15 years on.

An opportunistic hydrological restoration effort has assisted a pair of Brolga birds to nest successfully in a wetland area surrounded by ForestrySA pine plantation.

ForestrySA’s Artists in Residence program has kicked off with the selection of six artists from across the state. The program organised in conjunction with Mount Gambier’s Riddoch Art Gallery, provides participants with the opportunity to develop new work by taking inspiration from the picturesque ForestrySA forest reserves of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

A year-long works program has allowed ForestrySA to put a stop to ongoing vandalism occurring at the popular tourist attraction ‘Hell’s Hole’, in the Green Triangle.