Response to Timeless Timber
Myself and many others have shown that blackwood can provide positive economic returns, even on 40 year rotations with no cash flows from thinnings early in the rotation. There is published info out there. Species like blackwood are ideal for small scale forestry plantings that are integrated into the agricultural environment, not as a broad scale replacement like the disastrous blue gum industry. I've been to NZ and visited some of their leading farm foresters who are making as much as 50% of their annual income from the harvest of a few ha each year. They're growing pines, macrocarpa, eucs, blackwood and many others. I know of NZ grown blackwood that's gone into furniture, floors, veneers and even musical instruments. Growers are cloning trees based on wood quality and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before a fiddleback is cloned, the value of which would be exceptional.
I don't wish to be disrespectful but I do question many of your comments.