CHECKING EROSION
NATIVE VEGETATION BEST . "Of course the unspoilt primeval vegetation of high country is the best safeguard against erosion," states Captain Sanderson, president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, "but if that covering has been removed by timber-milling or by fire, the next best procedure is the replacing of the vegetational covering of the denuded areas with the species of native plants which ; flourished there previously. Naiture had evolved the best covering jin relation to soil and climatc. any departure from Nature's successfnl scheme is asking for trouble. It is very saddening to see in some, hilly places the gloomy stands of alien pines on land which could have been infinitely better used for the planting of native trees."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 129, 28 February 1940, Page 6
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