Beech plan attacked
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 2. Action for Environment, a national conservation group, considers that it is premature to assume that pine plantations planted to replace ■ beech forests on the West! Coast will flourish. The secretary (Mrs H. Rainforth) said in a statement; that the West Coast climate, would favour diseases serious in the North Island. The group objected to illconsidered demolition of low land beech forests and replanting with exotics because !of insufficient research into the long-term consequences, I she said. It was pleasing that the National Development Council advocated that felled na tive forests should be replanted with native beech.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33191, 3 April 1973, Page 2
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