Sawlogs & Sleepers

The Eddy Papers

A Eddy

 

Alan Eddy graduated from the VSF in 1948 and went on to have a long and distinguished career in the FCV and CFL.  Alan has written extensively about his career, and has very kindly provided his papers to be published on this site.

The first of those papers, The Forestry Family, is available at this link, and it is a "must read" if you wish to get a real flavour of the times from Alan's graduation onwards. The "Family", as Alan so rightly calls it, worked under conditons that are unimaginable today. Below are more of Alan's recollections.

VSF 1946-1948

Bruthen & Nowa Nowa 1949-1950

Mirboo North 1952-1953

Heyfield 1953-1954

Maryborough mid-1950s

VSF Lecturer 1954-1966

VSF Principal 1969-1978

Post VSF 1979-1989

The Professors

and finally, his Oral History recorded in 2010.

 

 
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Alan Eddy and Prince Charles at the VSF in 1974
Source: FCRPA

 
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Alan Eddy, VSF Principal in 1979
Source: FCRPA

 

 

Native Forest Production

Forestry Businesses

The link below will provide access to maps of sawmill and tramline locations in a number of forests.

The link below provides access to a spreadsheet recording sawlog and sleeper production statistics.

Alan Eddy

Alan gained the Dip For (Cres.) on graduation from the VSF in 1948. He was then awarded the BSc For (Melb) in 1953, and the MF (Calif) in 1959.

He worked in six Victorian forest districts from 1949, including Maryborough where he was the District Forester, and became a visiting lecturer at the VSF from 1954 to 1958. He was a senior lecturer at the VSF from 1960 to 1966, and the VSF Principal from 1969 to 1978.

He did a tour of duty in central divisions of the FCV in 1967 and 1968, and was then Chief Forest Education Officer and Policy Coordinator for the FCV, and forestry adviser to the Board of Inquiry into the Timber Industry during the period 1984 to 1985.

From 1986 to 1989 he was executive assistant to the Director, Lands and Forests Division, CFL, and then research officer for the Victorian Timber Industry Training Board from 1990 to 1993.

He became a Fellow of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) in 1983, was a member of the IFA executive from 1975 to 1989 and book reviews editor and a member of the editorial committee of Australian Forestry from 1978 to 1989.

From 1981 to 1985 he was Chairman of the Australian Branch of the Institute of Wood Science.

 

Alan Eddy

Alan gained the Dip For (Cres.) on graduation from the VSF in 1948. He was then awarded the BSc For (Melb) in 1953, and the MF (Calif) in 1959.

He worked in six Victorian forest districts from 1949, including Maryborough where he was the District Forester, and became a visiting lecturer at the VSF from 1954 to 1958. He was a senior lecturer at the VSF from 1960 to 1966, and the VSF Principal from 1969 to 1978.

He did a tour of duty in central divisions of the FCV in 1967 and 1968, and was then Chief Forest Education Officer and Policy Coordinator for the FCV, and forestry adviser to the Board of Inquiry into the Timber Industry during the period 1984 to 1985.

From 1986 to 1989 he was executive assistant to the Director, Lands and Forests Division, CFL, and then research officer for the Victorian Timber Industry Training Board from 1990 to 1993.

He became a Fellow of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) in 1983, was a member of the IFA executive from 1975 to 1989 and book reviews editor and a member of the editorial committee of Australian Forestry from 1978 to 1989.

From 1981 to 1985 he was Chairman of the Australian Branch of the Institute of Wood Science.