{"id":31404,"date":"2025-12-19T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=31404"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:45:13","slug":"gottstein-trust-calls-for-donors-as-it-celebrates-55-years-of-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/gottstein-trust-calls-for-donors-as-it-celebrates-55-years-of-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Gottstein Trust Calls for Donors as it Celebrates 55 Years of Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;s work in nurturing and expanding the knowledge base among foresters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe 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\u201d, according to Suzette Wedding. \u201cIn 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany leading companies are recognised as donors, with company logos placed on our course programs and also on the website\u201d, Weddnng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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: \u201cThe 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.\u201d Joel Dawson Forestry Corporation of NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For more information about how the industry can support the Trust, <a href=\"https:\/\/gottsteintrust.org\/our-supporters\/donors\">visit the Gottstein Trust donors page. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing timber is one part of the forestry industry, but growing foresters is an equally important part. 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