There will be no voluntary papers. The Local Organising Committee is convened by D Flinn of the Centre for Forest Tree Technology of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The focus of the conference is on the science underpinning criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management at the Forests Management Unit level for both plantations and natural forests in boreal, temperate and tropical biomes. The conference program is being managed by the Scientific Committee, and includes review papers which address issues or themes within seven generic criteria. For each issue or theme, there will be strong links back to one or more sustainability indicators relevant to the respective issues or themes.
Provision is made for formal stakeholder input on the first day of the conference.
Details of the conference program are provided on the accompanying page. The conference venue has excellent exhibition facilities for posters. All posters will be vetted by the Scientific Committee and those that best meet the conference objectives will be published in the post-conference proceedings. It is also proposed to publish conference proceedings that will comprise the conference resolutions, the summaries of the workshop discussions, stakeholder statements and selected posters. Mountain Ash is the world's tallest hardwood tree and has been the subject of intensive scientific study for some decades.