The television show about our forests, the people who work in them and the industries they support.
Going Bush is designed to be entertaining, informative and most of all give the proud and passionate people that work in our forest industries a voice, a chance to tell their stories.
CURRENT SERIES
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Episode 1
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Segment A - Fuel reduction Burn pt.1
Nick and Andrew take to the forests in Scamander, where they learn about the impact of bushfire on the community, and how further disasters can be prevented.
Segment B - Fuel reduction Burn Pt. 2
Nick and Andrew look into the intricacies of fuel reduction burns, and how Forestry Tasmania plan and manage the burning process.
Segment C - Hurfords Hardwood
Nick and Andrew take a look into the private timber production industry, leading them to Hurfords Hardwood in Northern New South Wales, where they discover how the private timber market works.
Segement D - Forestry benefits to the community
Nick and Andrew head to Victoria to discuss the benefits the Forestry industry bring to the community. They discover how the industry provides 24,000 jobs and relies on nearly 50,000 jobs.
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Episode 2
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Segment A - New Forest Technology pt.1
Nick and Andrew head to Victoria's Central Highlands to discover how technology has changed the way timber inventory is managed in and out of the forest.
Segment B - New Forest Technology Pt. 2
Nick and Andrew look further into new technologies in the Forest, and discover "The Optimiser" among other new forest hardware. They also discover how technology is helping to keep our foresters safe.
Segment C - Harvesting Planning
Nick and Andrew head up to Northern Tasmania, and take a look into the unseen, but massive planning process undertaken for coupe harvesting.
Segement D - Forest Education
Nick and Andrew take a look into how we educate children about the intricacies of the forest industry, and look at new ways to approach forest learning.
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Episode 3
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Segment A - Timber vs Other Building Materials
Nick and Andy use science to see how timber's strength stacks up against other building materials.
Segment B - VicForests Regeneration Cycle
Nick and Andy head to Victoria's Native Forests to look at the story of regeneration, and learn about the cycle that keeps the forest productive.
Segment C - Neville-Smith
Nick and Andy take a look at some of the technology Neville-Smith adopt, and how the choice to keep investing in tough times has affected the business.
Segement D - Collecting Fire wood
Nick and Andy meet with Kevin Norris, who makes a day of legally collecting fire wood, by acquiring a permit from Forestry Tasmania.
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Episode 4
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Segment A - Private Forests in Queensland
Nick and Andy head to Queensland, to see how farmers are growing & managing trees on their land to add more revenue streams to their business.
Segment B - Forest Certification
Nick and Andrew look at the process of Forest certification, the system designed to ensure the wood products have come from a sustainable source.
Segment C - Drones
Nick and Andy have come to check out how Forestry Tasmania is testing remote controlled drones to map the forest and it's content.
Segement D - Rice Grass
Nick and Andy head to Port Sorell to investigate the impact of the introduced species, Rice Grass.
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PREVIOUS SERIES
Stories from the Bush Capital
We go to Australia’s bush capital and the Capitol itself to see some of the decorative bits of Parliament House. Not the pollies themselves but some of the floors they walk, seats and couches they sit on and tables the argue across … all made from various Australian special species of timber. See how work is coming along with the National Arboretum, due to open next year. Being created on the site of the devastating 2003 bushfires, the collection of 100 forest communities from around the world will be an imaginative tribute to the heritage and culture of forests.
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Forests’ role in the carbon equation
The boys talk to a trio of carbon specialists about the part forests and its products can play in the fight against global warming. They see how it’s measured in Victoria’s Wombat Forest and hear how storage of carbon in forests should be compared to a dam, with inputs from growing trees and regular withdrawals especially for timber to replace fossil-fuel intensive materials, rather than simply locked away.
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Various demand for Victoria’s plantation and native forests
The importance for balance in consideration of native and plantation forests is explored from a Victorian perspective, where the main players say there will always be demand for resource from both.
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Studying the waters of Southern NSW
And back over the border in Southern New South Wales one of Australia’s longest running testing regimes for water quality is itself put to the test, with scientists saying evidence suggests measures put in place to minimise impact from forestry activity on water catchments is working.
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Finding Huon pine in Tasmania’s wild west
Tasmania’s truly heroic timber Huon pine is the star. We discover that contrary to some perceptions forestry and tourism can work hand in hand even down to log trucks being able to hitch a ride on the tourist railway down from the Teepookana plateau.
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Chic Huon in upmarket Sydney
Follow the journey of the raw Huon pine log through a West Coast joinery shed to finally adorn the walls and fittings of an up-market Sydney board room, where advertising and media mogul John Singleton waxes lyrical about the timber.
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A plan to energise the NSW South Coast with woodchip waste
We look at the commodity side of forestry at the country’s oldest woodchip plant near Eden. While the mill struggles to meet demand for the fibre strength chips from Australian hardwood forests provide, it is also looking to the future with plans for using its own waste for power generation on top of a plant making pellets for domestic use.
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A Northern NSW timber family answering the industry’s challenges
Meet a tight-knit timber family from northern New South Wales, which has responded to the vagaries of the forestry industry by getting bigger when the option was to get out and vertically integrating their operation so that in years to come a significant share of their resource will be harvested from their own plantations.
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A timber product for the future from an antique Newcastle factory
We visit a factory near Newcastle that looks as ominous as a horror movie set … and that’s just what it doubled as for the filming of Tomorrow when the war began a few years back. But from this archaic looking mill comes an all-natural cladding product fit for the 21st century.
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Latrobe Valley environment benefits from factory upgrade
At Australia’s biggest paper mill and only office paper maker in Victoria’s LaTrobe valley everything is on a BIG scale. Andrew and Nick discover that flows through to Australian Paper’s approach to environmental improvement. As part of a $600 million plant overhaul the company not only introduced a bigger proportion of recycled material into production lines but dramatically improved its standard and quantity of effluent and through co-generation produces more than enough electricity to power the plant.
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South Australia’s pine tree experts
Softwood plantations have become a staple of the forestry industry and South Australians say no-one does it better than them … They’ve had plenty of practice having started growing radiata pines 130 years ago.
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Tracing the power poles back to North East Tasmania’s forests
You see them along the roadside throughout the land and they’re an easy fallback for long road trip games of I spy with my little eye … PP? Power poles of course. We go bush to find where the tallest and straightest trees grow and how they’re handled with kid gloves to provide the poles to carry electricity cables.
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Planning for innovation in Tasmanian forest products
We investigate the future of timber production . not using a crystal ball but armed with Forestry Tasmania's Innovation Plan. The on-going challenge of getting more from less has Forestry Tasmania looking further into maximising returns from its resource by increasing recovery rates from logs and investigating a range of new engineered timber products and rayon production for clothing.
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Innovative ways of keeping the home fires burning
We investigate the future of timber production . not using a crystal ball but armed with Forestry Tasmania's Innovation Plan. The on-going challenge of getting more from less has Forestry Tasmania looking further into maximising returns from its resource by increasing recovery rates from logs and investigating a range of new engineered timber products and rayon production for clothing.
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The shy creatures of East Gippsland forests
The noctural life of the mysterious and rare mammmal the long footed poteroo. Hear a scientific explanation of how the poteroo likes the regenerating forests of East Gippsland just as much as untouched bushland.
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Timber harvested nearby makes a NSW south coast social magnet
We visit Bermagui to see how the controversial harvesting of a nearby forest has resulted in the creation of a new focal point for the town. The natural log pillars and timber cladding and decks, milled just down the road at Eden, of the Bermagui Fishermen's Co-op underline the South Coast's joint heritage of timber getting and fishing.
The story of one tree from Victoria's high country
Follow the journey of one tree in the Victorian highlands from forest floor to finished product. Segregation of the different parts of the tree starts in the bush. The more valuable main barrel of the mountain ash takes a journey via a sawmill to a building site for framing and final fit-out and the furniture factory, where artisans turn it into fabulous decorative and utilitarian items.
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Residue from the one tree goes to make fine copy paper
Continuing on with the journey of one tree in the Victorian highlands from forest floor to finished product. The lower quality parts are sent off for pulping to make Australia's only home-grown office paper at Australian Paper, Maryvale.
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A biodiversity melting pot in Northern NSW
Explore the biodiversity of Coffs Harbour in NSW where tropical and temperate forests meet, throwing up a Noah's Ark of flora and fauna. It means scientists in these parts have hundreds of critters to study and consider when planning for forest operations. We do a bit of bat hunting as part of the study of forest biodiversity and look out over Coffs Harbour from a spanking new lookout.
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The journey to a safer workplace in Tassie forests
We visit a Tasmanian harvesting operation to see the massive improvements in bush safety. Forestry Tasmania some time ago now set about changing the safety culture both for its own workforce and contractors with dramatic results, which are demonstrated at an awards day where top performers are rewarded.
OLDER SERIES
Episode 1
In the first episode, the lads will take a different perspective on the Victorian bushfires, looking at how VicForests coped with the emergency and how its forests are faring now. Nick and Andrew will also examine how the lessons learned in Victoria are being applied in Tasmania. There’s also an interesting segment about how environmentalists and the forest industry are working together to thrash out their differences over forest management in Tasmania. While the show doesn’t shy away from the tough issues, its broad appeal lies in talking about the fun that can be had in State forests.
Episode 2
Nick and Andrew visit the areas destryoyed by the devastating Victorian black Saturday bushfires; the story of Tasmania's magnificent blackwoods; and, serving Australia's most unique lunch at the Eagle's Eyrie, Maydena. All this and more in episode two of Going Bush.
Episode 3
Why lonely trees are happy trees; monitoring the forest breathing; getting bogged with friends, a unique partnership between forestry and four wheel drivers. All this and more in episode three of Going Bush.
Episode 4
This week on Going Bush:Hunting for the giants of our tiny streams; the beauty of special species timbers; and a look at the tourism attractions on state forest. All this and more in episode four of Going Bush.
Episode 5
In this episode of Going Bush, we look at a birds eye view and a smart device providing more information that ever about Australia's forests, is this the way of the future how our farmers involvement in forestry is increasing, going back in time the dying art of shingle splitting is kept alive in Tasmania's North West and how Oakdale Industries works to provide real employment for those with special needs using products sourced from our forests.
