Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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0301 Forestry

This class consists of units mainly engaged in growing standing timber both in native forests or in plantations or in timber tracts.

Primary Activities
Forestry

0302 Logging

This class consists of units mainly engaged in felling trees for logs, in cutting and shaping trees for rough-hewn products such as mine timbers, posts, railway sleepers, etc., or in cutting trees and scrub for firewood. This class also includes units mainly engaged in gathering other forest products or in distilling of eucalyptus oil in the forest.

Primary Activities
Eucalyptus oil distilling (forest); Firewood cutting (forest); Forest products gathering; Kauri gum digging; Logging (incl. poles); Mine timbers hewing (forest); Pine cone collecting; Pole hewing (forest); Posts shaping (forest); Pulpwood cutting (forest or bush); Railway sleepers hewing (forest); Resin gathering; Rough shaping of forest timber; Sphagnum moss gathering; Timber hewing (forest); Tree cutting or felling

0303 Services to Forestry

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing services such as forest reafforestation, conservation or plantation maintenance on a fee or contract basis. This class also includes units mainly engaged in operating forest nurseries or in providing forest fire fighting services.

Primary Activities
Fire-fighting (forest); Forest conservation services; Forest nursery operation or services; Forest planting; Pest control services (forestry; except aerial or wild animal control); Reforestation services; Timber plantation maintenance; Timber tract maintenance; Tree pruning (forest); Tree thinning (forest)

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