REGULATED CUTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 14

REGULATED CUTTING.

RXMU AND WHITE PINE. (From Our Correspondent.) HOKITIKA, Saturday. Timber interests in South Westland are keenly watchiiifr (|,evelo|nnent of a State plan for regulated cutting of some of the vast'areas of rimu and white pine forests there. The idea behind the plan k that the mill* should take out timber only as it mature*, using such methods as will ensure management of the forests on a "sustained yield baste." This is one of the first experiments of its kind in Xew Zealand, and it«s euecese would mean a revolutionary change in milling methods, and an assurance of some supplies of timber virtually for all time. The State Forest Service has decided to set aside an area of 10.000 acres of rimu pole-type forest near Lake lanthe in South Westland, for a forest conservation region. This will be placed under planned management, with the idea of seeing whether it is possible to control the milling of these forests in euch a way that milling wTrt-fe possible more or less continuously. Briefly, the plan aims at taking out only that forest which i* matured each year, and is based on the practice in European forests where, as supplier; dwindled, it became necessary to stop haphazard and ruthless cutting and plan for the years ahead. One significant feature of the plan is the decision to log the areas, and eell the logs, instead of the trees, a<s undertaken by the State in the past.