Support for Sustainable Private Forestry

AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY STANDARD CERTIFIED

NOT-FOR-PROFIT • INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION

Private Forestry Service Queensland (PFSQ) is an incorporated, ‘Not for Profit’ Association located in Gympie, Queensland’s largest and most diverse forestry region. We are recognised as an industry leader in private native forest management and hardwood plantation development.

The PFSQ Team has been working for the past 20 years to improve the quality and viability of the private forest resource in Australia, and we continue to deliver sustainable forest management by:

• Undertaking activities that will contribute to the development, stability and prosperity of an ecologically sustainable regional forestry industry in Queensland with particular reference to private forestry;
• Establishing, developing and maintaining information channels, services and products which will meet the needs of the regional forestry industry;
• Influence legislative, planning and regulatory policy for the betterment of the regional forestry industry;
• Facilitating and participating in industry development and cohesion and the links with other industry sectors; and
• Through promotion, to encourage community, industry and government support for the regional economic, social and environmental benefits offered by forestry on private lands.

PFSQ’s forest management system is certified to the Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management (AS 4708-2013), an internationally endorsed standard that is managed under the Responsible Wood Certification Scheme.  The Responsible Wood Certification Scheme is endorsed by the international Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).

PFSQ combines life-long experience in the forest management industry with a team of motivated individuals from forestry, environmental science, agribusiness, horticulture, law, tertiary education and forest research backgrounds.

The PFSQ Team brings together a range of expertise in all aspects of:

• native and plantation forest establishment and management
• forest vegetation management with integrated grazing specialties
• representation at regional, state and federal levels for forest policy
• forestry legislation interpretation, including Tax Commissioner Discretion applications
• workshops, seminars, conferences and landholder extension
• planning and assessment
• stand inventory and valuation
• infrastructure establishment and maintenance
• fire management training and delivery
• harvesting and marketing
• forest research with universities, government, NRM & Landcare groups
• advanced GIS and mapping
• growth modelling
• cost benefit analysis

PFSQ works to continuously improve our position in the forestry industry by developing competitive and innovative business practices.  Delivering sustainable land management, maintaining a regionally diverse industry to support small processing businesses and mentoring enthusiastic and motivated people in a safe work environment.

The end result is a holistic approach to natural resource management that integrates productive land-use systems with silvicultural and grazing best practice, which in turn creates stability and prosperity of an ecologically sustainable regional forestry industry.

Queensland currently imports more than 100k m³ of sawn hardwood and 10k lineal metres of pole material per annum.

Our vision is for Queensland to be a net exporter of accredited sawn hardwood and value added forest products.