Welcome to Forestreefacts

Forestreefacts provides global forestry management expertise and access to world class forestry management information. Specialists in providing forestry support systems to ensure that management is able to formulate their decisions on reliable data based on strategic long term fibre resource plans (LTFRP) covering 20- 30 years, tactical plans (3 – 5 years) through to annual plan of operations (APO) with monthly and daily productivity and financial controls.

In order to achieve the desired long-term sustainable fibre supply, a thorough and detailed planning cycle is required. Reliable natural resource data such as climatic and soil data together with a thorough understanding of species allows recommendations to be made which will optimize the fibre resource and at the same time ensuring that it is socially, environmental and economically sustainable.

Forestreefacts will assist you in the implementation and management of a spatially integrated plantation database and planning system for forestry operations, enhancing planning and management capabilities.

The various dynamics that influence the forestry management cycle need to be understood as part of the operating environment across project regions, while fully appreciating all of these aspects and the interrelations that require consideration.

Forest Management Key Focus Areas

• Maximize the growth and yield, with specific product requirements, from the site
• Cost benefit operational effectiveness in silviculture, harvesting and logistics
• Sustained yields between consecutive rotations
• Achieving socially, environmentally and economically acceptable standards

Targets and time lines need to be set and captured through specific management plans, and the influence of these improvements built into the business strategies. These are extremely powerful tools in the determination of the best way forward and will provide the organization with a unique opportunity to strategically determine how to best optimize its resources and investments.

Forestreefacts has the knowledge base, the understanding and the tools to guide the management of the fibre resource. This principle must be continued through to the next important step and move to an understanding of the influence, which can be exerted, on the quality and characteristics of the final product.  To do this the effects of the fibre characteristics and other factors in the final process need to be understood and integrated into the strategy which will bring together the entire value chain from tree breeding, through nursery propagation, silviculture and tree growing, to harvesting and logistic efficiencies, through to the processing for the end consumer.

All these operational components need to be coordinated and integrated into a forestry management information system (FMIS), capable of providing all levels of management with timeous, relevant and meaningful information on which decisions can be made. If these are all aligned to the overall strategy of the organization, then all activities can ensure that they will contribute to taking full advantage of the plantation fibre resource under management.

The translation of this opportunity through the production of high yielding, quality forests, is key to the value adding which the tree resource can provide.  Maximum productivity per unit of time (volume as measured in MAI) off the landholdings is a forestry imperative, while the needs of the different processors such as sawmills, board plants, pulp and paper mills, and bioenergy plants, is density and product yield, must all be part of the economic drivers of the forestry management plan. This is best achieved through the use of a world class Forestry Management Information System which Forestreefacts is capable of providing.