Westland Park
Sir,—The only thing essential for successful management in perpetuity of our remaining podocarp forests is a milling rate not in excess of regeneration aided by supplementary planting. For economic and social reasons an extensive area has been provided as a resource for logging on a sustainable basis. For just as valid scientific and non-material reasons South Okarito and Waikukupa forests are to be preserved as national park. “New Zealand forests are most like the Mesozoic forests bf Gondwanaland and are so regarded by Northern Hemisphere biologists who visit them in pilgrimage. We are the custodians of a heritage of world interest" (Sir Charles
Fleming). Nobody has expressed the non-material values better than the Coast’s own Peter Hooper. “There is a place even yet almost undefiled. The eye sweeps unhindered from seashore forests to the snows of Aorangi. At this frontier words fail. Here is one of the last spiritual reservoirs of the natural world.” The compromise is reasonable. —
Yours, etc., ERIC -BENNETT. October 15, 1981.
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