Forestry Harvest Management Services for Canterbury Regional Council

Canterbury Regional Council (Environment Canterbury) owns and manages approximately 3,000 hectares of plantation forestry across the region, established initially for soil conservation and flood protection purposes around the braided rivers.

Many of these forests now are an integral part of our regional parks providing recreational spaces, an alternative stream of revenue for rating districts and biodiversity opportunities. What we need: We are seeking proposals for the management of our yearly harvest of approximately 85 ha of radiata pine forest on Environment Canterbury land.

We require the Supplier to act as our agent, managing all aspects of our yearly harvest in a safe, sustainable, and economic way to ensure we are achieving best returns from our forests without compromising health and safety of workers or the public. The harvest must be managed in a way that minimises negative impacts on the recreation, flood protection, soil conservation and biodiversity values our forests hold.

We require the Supplier to have excellent health and safety and environmental management, meeting all national standards and legal obligations in these areas. In order to achieve optimum economic returns from harvests, we are seeking a Supplier who has good access to both domestic and export markets.

Our ideal Supplier will have access to suitable subcontractors to carry out the logging component of this contract to a high standard. We would like to take a collaborative approach in which the Supplier works closely with the Environment Canterbury contract manager to deliver operations that achieve all our desired outcomes.