Cape York Timbers Harvest Resource Assessment
Service delivery: Code compliant Harvest Plan for Lama Lama plantation, for a more in-depth understanding of Cape York’s forestry resources.
Client: Cape York Timbers
Location: Running Creek (Lama Lama Land Trust Property), Far North Queensland
Start: 2018
Completion: 2018
Running Creek is a property owned by the Lama Lama Land Trust, with forestry harvests managed by Cape York Timbers.
Verterra delivered a Code compliant Harvest Plan for Running Creek with a highly visual, easily interpretable map that would assist Cape York Timbers staff with the management of their property.
Verterra identified areas with commercial potential and presented a draft harvest yield map showing primary haul load location, exclusion zones and buffers, and colour coded productivity classes.
The project comprised:
Reviewing all existing desktop and field studies for the Lama Lama Running Creek property (Assessing the reliability of data, determining work required).
Additional desktop studies: satellite image analysis and other natural resource data gathering to identify areas with commercial potential.
Field studies of areas deemed as having high potential for commercial use.
Preparation of a code compliant harvest management plan that provides future resource direction and a detailed layout plan of yields, roads, crossings and general ramp locations, and exclusion zones for the next 3-5 years.
