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Tasmanian oak [1] is a native Australian hardwood produced by any of three trees, Eucalyptus regnans, Eucalyptus obliqua or Eucalyptus delegatensis, when it is sourced from the Australian state of Tasmania. [2] Despite the common name "oak", none of the species are in the genus Quercus or the oak family Fagaceae. The hardwood timber is light ...
Robert Bunning (13 December 1859 – 12 August 1936) was an English-born Western Australian businessman involved in the construction, timber, and sawmill industries. He co-founded with his younger brother Arthur (1863–1929) the company Bunning Bros, the predecessor to the modern-day retailer Bunnings.
Eucalyptus obliqua, commonly known as messmate stringybark [3] or messmate, [4] but also known as brown top, brown top stringbark, stringybark or Tasmanian oak, [5] is a species of tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy or fibrous bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth greyish bark on the thinnest branches ...
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. [3] Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by brothers Arthur and Robert Bunning, who had
Millars' Karri and Jarrah Company (1902) Limited, commonly known as Millars, [1] [a] was a Western Australian focused timber and timber railway company. [2] [3] [4]Millars' Karri and Jarrah Forests Limited was a public company incorporated in London in July 1897 with its shares listed on the London Stock Exchange. [5]
River floodplain hardwood, Dry-mesic oak forest, Seasonally wet oak-hardwood woodland [28] Georgia: Fernbank Forest: 65 acres (26 ha) Piedmont Hardwood Forest: Tulip Poplar – Oak – Hickory [citation needed] Georgia: Big Trees Forest Preserve 30 acres (12 ha) Piedmont Hardwood Forest: oak-hickory-pine forest [29] [full citation needed] Illinois
Waste Land Act (1863) - made it possible for further licensing for forest activities was possible after Van Diemen's Land become Tasmania in 1856. Waste Lands Act (1881) - provided for land reservation for the preservation of timber. In 1885 the State Forests Act preservation and policing were not well organised and the management of forests ...
Founded in 1875 by brothers John and Thomas Gunn, it was one of Australia's oldest companies. It had over 900 square kilometres of plantations, mainly eucalyptus trees. In 2001 Gunns paid $335 million for Tasmania's biggest woodchip company, North Forest Products, making it Australia's biggest exporter of woodchips.