EROSION
Sir, —I think “Ex-High Country” has been looking at high country through a car-window. Without a doubt, deer and chamois are to a very great extent responsible for erosion in the South Island, as their grounds are mainly the watersheds covering millions of acres well beyond the reach of cattle, sheep, and rabbits; and what young plants they do not eat they certainly stamp out in no uncertain manner. The result is there is no low vegetation to retain the heavy nor’-west rains, which is quite obvious to any high-country man, and probably even to the catchment boards. —Yours, etc., P. EVANS. September 14, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26220, 18 September 1950, Page 2
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