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The W.A. Chip & Pulp Company was founded in 1969 to export woodchips from sustainable bluegum plantations after the Government of Western Australia granted a Bunnings led consortium rights to establish a woodchip project in Manjimup. [1] [2] In August 2000, the business was sold to Marubeni. [3] [4]
The introduction of the wood chip industry to Western Australia in the 1960s initially attracted less opposition then it did in the Eastern states. This started to change in the 1970s. [ 4 ] When woodchipping began around the town of Manjimup in 1975, local residents Michael Haabjoern and John Chester felt they had no recourse to legal means of ...
Timber is the town's major industry, but it has been joined by fruit and vegetable farms, dairy farms, wool, grain and vineyards. [5] The Cripps Pink, better known as the Pink Lady apple, was created in Manjimup in 1973 by John Cripps of the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, [6] and the trademark is now used on products across four continents. [7]
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The Westralia Timber and Firewood Company worked between 1902 -1920 at Kanowna later to Kurramia (aka B.T.Henderson's Tramway). [ 23 ] The Lakeside Firewood Companies was the combination of the latter two businesses and existed for a short time between 1919 and 1924.
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Official logo as of 2022. The Society of American Foresters (SAF) is a professional organization representing the forestry industry in the United States. Its mission statement declares that it seeks to "advance the science, education, and practice of forestry; to enhance the competency of its members; to establish professional excellence; and, to use the knowledge, skills and conservation ...