NATURAL ASSETS
SOME SWAMPS AND BOGS
There is good evidence in many countries to support a request recently made by Miss Lucy Cramvell, botanist of the Auckland Museum, for preserving the natural condition of certain peat bogs of Southland and Stewart Island—bogs which she has described as "natural reservoirs." It is now recognised in the United States of America, Canada,, and several other big countries, that the draining of so many large areas of swamp and other water-holding areas, was a blunder. Not only did these schemes destroy the feeding and breeding-places of water-fowl but lowered the sub-soil water-level of adjacent lands, which consequently became parched during periods of dry weather. Therefore during past years many of the "reclaimed areas" have been restored to their original condition of swamp or water. That was why—a few years ago —members of the Forest and Bird Protection Society emphasised the folly of a proposal for the draining of the AVashdyke Lagoon, the peaceful home of many waterfowl, in South Canterbury.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 121, 9 February 1940, Page 2
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