Best practice award for forestry company

Wood Marketing Services has won the Waikato Regional Council Forestry Site of the Year award for work in two forest blocks near Te Uku, between Hamilton and Raglan.


The rehabilitation of the earthworks was an important aspect of this award-winning Wood Marketing Services forestry project.

Operating under strict resource consent conditions, Wood Marketing Services used experienced and suitably qualified contractors, for the sensitive earthworks undertaken to establish forest roads and skid sites.

Careful planning and management of earthworks in steep clay country is essential, with a limited summer season to complete construction work, but also have all roading infra-structure rehabilitated and stable prior to the end of April each year.

The rehabilitation of the earthworks is important in order to minimise sedimentation and erosion events that occur with earthworks left exposed to weather. Correct techniques such as hay mulching and hydro-seeding were used at these sites to protect new earthworks.


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