Wilderness
Sir, — Aline Pengelly’s attitude to wilderness (October 16) is the voice of old-time exploitation, where every bit of the country is seen as available for human expansion, often with disastrous consequences for land and people. The thousands of acres of burned-off, cut-over, and unused wasteland in Westland is a good example. The proposed wilderness area in North-West Nelson is a reasonable apd appropriate status for the central part of a very large region. Its economic value must be minimal since major mineral deposits have not been found after a century of prospecting. Some people, it seems, are not satisfied with the land they already occupy and have partially destroyed. Instead of looking after that properly they would exploit every last part of New Zealand for doubtful economic gain. — Yours, etc., A. J. CRAIG. October 16, 1978.
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Press, 18 October 1978, Page 11
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