BR & KF MUSKETT & SONS PTY LTD
Welcome to Muskett Family Forest Certification
We are certified to the Australian Standard® for Sustainable Forest Management (AS/NZS 4708:2021). The Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management underpins and supports the Responsible Wood Certification System. The Responsible Wood system is based on credible Australian standards developed under the robust Standards development process endorsed by Standards Australia. The Muskett Family forest block is located near Uxbridge in the lower Derwent Valley, Tasmania. The block has been in the Muskett family for several generations and contains an area of mixed forest and a significant stand of superior quality timber comprising Swamp Gum (Eucalyptus regnans) Stringy Bark (Eucalyptus obliqua) and Gum-top Stringy Bark (Eucalyptus delegatensis). This stand will be managed with the care and respect that has become synonymous with the Muskett name. This meticulous approach will provide ongoing benefits for future generations. Our latest external Audit and our Forest Management Plan can be downloaded from below.
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You can now view our current Certification Certificate, Current Summary Audit, Updated Ver of the Forest Management Plan and Map of operation location.
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Our Story
BR & KF Muskett was formed by Brian and Kathleen Muskett in 1950 in Tasmania’s Lower Derwent Valley forests to supply the Boyer Newsprint Mill at New Norfolk with logs from the forest concession located in the Plenty, Styx and Florentine Valleys. The family expanded to include sons, Kevin, Geoffrey and Robert, and daughter, Helen. The now fourth generation Muskett family are recognised as one of the leading harvesting and haulage contractors in Tasmania. The pride of their work can be seen in some of the more difficult operations being completed with minimal impact and disruption. From native forest harvesting, softwood and hardwood plantation thinning through to final plantation clearfall, the Muskett name has become synonymous with quality and care.
The Muskett family have always embraced mechanisation, new harvesting ideas and innovative forest management to improve business and industry. From pulling logs with horses and bullocks, Brian and wife, Kathleen were the first contractors to use a skidder in southern Tasmania, the first to use a tree shear and feller-buncher and first to use a feller-buncher in cable logging.
