NEWS
Here you’ll find the Wenita news, updated each month.
Planting season about to begin
The 2021 winter planting season is planned to begin after Queen’s Birthday Weekend. This year we will plant cutover areas at South Akatore and Allanton, and a small area remaining at Waronui, a total of about 525ha. Additionally, there is approximately 370ha to plant...
Safetree leadership workshops
In early May, the Forest Industry Safety Council (FISC) ran two two-day Safetree Leadership Workshops for Wenita supervisors, contractor principals, contractor foremen and senior crew members. What is the Safetree Leadership workshop about? The true test of leadership...
Why do we prune?
The main reason for pruning is to produce clearwood. Branches are cut off from the first 5.0-6.0 metres of a tree’s stem, usually in two lifts. This allows knot-free timber to form around the defect (knotty) core. This knot-free timber is known as clearwood and...
Residues – rubbish or resource?
Logging debris (slash) left behind on used skid sites has long been a problem for forest owners. The problem has increased over the years, as logging machinery has gotten bigger and extraction distances have increased, resulting in more slash accumulation on fewer...
Wenita staff member on FISC Council
Wenita Health, Safety and Environmental Coordinator Willie Sinclair has been appointed to the role of South Island Worker Representative on the Forestry Industry Safety Council (FISC). FISC national safety director Fiona Ewing says worker engagement is key to the...
Safe Start Breakfast gets 2021 underway
On Tuesday, January 12, Wenita held its annual Safe Start Breakfast at the Taieri Rugby Club with all harvesting, silviculture, roading and transport crews. This year more than 180 people attended. Wenita CEO David Cormack kicked off the event with some safety...