The field tour will visit eucalypt seed orchards, research trials and natural forests in the scenic Huon Valley and Southern Forest region, south of Hobart. We will visit Forestry Tasmania’s seed orchards complex at Oigles Road near Geeveston.  Highlights include a working clonal seed orchard of Eucalyptus nitens, a seedling seed orchard of E. globulus and genetic conservation stands of rare Tasmania endemic eucalypts.  There is also a small CP progeny trial of E. nitens.

We will then drive to the Tahune Airwalk (one of Tasmania's top tourist attractions  http://www.tasforestrytourism.com.au/pages/sites_tahune.html, where we will cross the Huon River and go on the airwalk (canopy walkway) among the tall trees while our barbeque lunch is being prepared.

After lunch we will return to Hobart via a different road, stopping to look at native forest management, and pruned and thinned plantations of E. nitens.

0900  Depart Old Woolstore, Hobart
1000  Oigles Rd seed orchards.  Morning Tea
1130  Travel to Tahune Airwalk
1200  Explore the Tahune Airwalk
1300  Barbeque lunch at Tahune
1400  Depart Tahune
1420  Look at one of the oldest thinned and pruned sawlog plantation stands of E. nitens, off Arve Rd
1530  Inspect pruning and thinning trial and operational E. nitens plantations, Barnback   Afternoon Tea
1700  Approx. return to Hobart