Growing timber is one part of the forestry industry, but growing foresters is an equally important part. Suzette Weeding, Chair of the Gottstein Trust, is appealing to companies and individuals to financially support the Trust’s work in nurturing and expanding the knowledge base among foresters.
“We reached a tally of 175 people doing a Gottstein course in the past six years, with high satisfaction ratings from both seasoned and newer industry entrants, and university students”, according to Suzette Wedding. “In addition to the Wood Science Course, the Skills Development Grants and the Trust Fellowships, the Trust also funded attendance by six early career engineers to attend the World Conference on Timber Engineering in Brisbane.
“It is the genuine loyalty of industry donors that underpins this unique national educational trust fund, which will soon be entering its 55th year of operation.”
“Many leading companies are recognised as donors, with company logos placed on our course programs and also on the website”, Weddnng said.
Fellowship reports are public documents that can be read at any time and the final word is best left to one of the Skills Development Grant recipients: “The grant has allowed me to conduct field trips across NSW, ACT, Tasmania and Victoria gathering information, and seeds, to develop a set of procedures for managing seed collections, storage and linking of information needed to restore hardwood forests in the event of future fires.” Joel Dawson Forestry Corporation of NSW.
- For more information about how the industry can support the Trust, visit the Gottstein Trust donors page.
