PNGAF MAGAZINE ISSUE # 51 of 21st April 2022. Overview Australian Foresters in PNG till 1975.

AUSTRALIAN FORESTERS in PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1922-1975

PNGAF MAGAZINE ISSUE # 51 of 21st April 2022 OVERVIEW: PNG Australian Foresters till 1975.

This project (in serialised magazine format) covers the history of Australian foresters in PNG up till 1975.

Editor R B McCarthy1 2022.

Building a better PNG. Wood – an increasingly strategic resource for tomorrow.

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Dick McCarthy District Forester TPNG 1963-1975.

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PNG Australian Foresters till 1975.

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The implications for Australia and PNG of political, economic and security development in terms of PNG forestry is that there is a long standing and significant wood trade between Australia and PNG encompassed within a sphere of similar forest types, similar plantation species and forest products bound by many existing long-term areas of mutual co-operation (e.g., forestry training) within the respective government and private sectors.

This project (in serialised magazine format) covers the history of Australian foresters in PNG up till 1975. It attempts to explain the strange coming together of methods, opportunities, and motives of early Australian foresters to enact lasting social changes within the PNG Forest Sector. At the same time, it provides an insight into the introduction of forest management practices and tree growing into the privately owned forest lands of PNG. Many people and organisations have contributed and continue to contribute to this social forest history project especially because its format is for non-commercial and educational purposes.

The approach using the site ISSUU has been selected to ensure this forestry knowledge and the lessons of the past help current and future forest sector personnel to develop their own perspective re developing PNG’s forest sector.

Access the project’s fifty magazines on issuu.com/rbmccarthy. The project is in a serialised format and only halfway at 21st of April 2022.

The implications for Australia and PNG of the business of PNG Forestry is not only building a better PNG but that wood fibre is an increasingly strategic resource for tomorrow.

Dick McCarthy Editor PNGAF Magazine

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Cartoon from Bob Brown’s Grass Roots Guide to PNG Pidgin South Pacific Post.

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