Planning a forest? Planting? Harvest coming up? Selling or buying an existing forest? Good management is essential to ensuring maximum return on forestry investments.
As with any busy forest owner, you probably don't have the time to run around researching and managing your forestry investment, especially when there are more pressing needs on the farm.
- We help you with forest establishment
PF Olsen can help with site selection, land acquisition and preparation, treestock selection, planting and weed control.
- We're silvicultural experts
Need help with silviculture?
PF Olsen manage pruning and thinning, along with quality control and collection of stand quality data.
- We help you manage the hazards
Don't let the threat of fire, pests or domestic stock destroy your livelihood! By being prepared you can ensure you minimise the fire risk to your property and keep family and personnel safe.
We can advise you on other likely hazards that may impact on crop productivity, and how best to manage these.
Examples are fungal diseases such as Armillaria root rot or Dothistroma pini, possum control, and when to allow domestic stock into your trees.
- We utilise comprehensive risk management systems
Here at
PF Olsen we institute rigorous systems of contract documentation and quality control of operations. We all know that no one can predict the future, so we place extra special emphasis on the identification and mitigation of forestry business risks.
Environmental and Health and Safety legislation exposes forest owners to prosecution if proper precautions are not taken and certain procedures followed. Our customers are made fully aware of risks involved and are able to make well-informed decisions about managing their investments.
- We're early adopters of research
We are members of the Forest Research/Industry research co-operatives and are a shareholder in research companies such as:
- Stand Growth Modelling Co-operative
- Radiata Pine Breeding Company Limited
- Site Management Co-operative
- Douglas Fir Co-operative
- WQI Limited (wood quality research)
We have access to a wide range of industry initiatives, which means we receive the latest forestry trends, technological advances and political information as it comes to hand.
- Our management systems are second to none
Need help with your management and administration systems?
Many of our clients benefit from implementing one or more of the many systems we have available to help manage your investment smoothly and cost efficiently.
Our range of management systems include:
- Quality Management Systems, certified to ISO 9001
- Environmental Management System certified to ISO 14001
- Operations planning and budgeting
- Engagement, supervision and payment of contractors
- Quality control on operations
- Fire prevention and protection
- Forest health inspections
- Forest record keeping
- Administration, cost control and reporting
- We're at the cutting edge of technology
We understand that being techno-savvy is not a priority for everyone.
However, we now live in a day and age where embracing technology can mean the difference between making or breaking an investment opportunity.
We strive to be on the cutting edge of forestry technology, so that our clients can benefit financially from technological advances.
Our capabilities include:
- Geographic Information Systems - for forest
mapping and area analysis
- Woodstock - for forest estate modelling
- Forest Information and Planning Systems (FIPS) -
PF Olsen's in-house information and planning system
- Standpak (and its replacement, Atlas Forecaster) - for stand scheduling, yield table development, and what-if analysis
- Micro MARVL, GroMARVL (and its replacement YT-Gen) - for inventory and yield table development
- Harvest planning and engineering systems - to assist in maximising the harvesting infrastructure
- We provide comprehensive land information and mapping support
We operate a modern in-house land information, forest mapping and record keeping service using both conventional mapping equipment and computer-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Staff use Global Position Systems equipment for defining the boundaries of small forest blocks, logging coups and road locations.
