Forestry plans
Sir,—The Forest Service tree-slaughtering machine proposes to strike again, burningoff and cutting down our unique native forests. One hundred and four people depend on dead trees for jobs in the Buller region (4 per cent of the workforce). It is not a major industry there. The Fox River catchment is right in the middle of a rich belt of lowland forest, essential for birdlife, and contains relatively little timber. Logging here would ruin a beautiful, potential National Park, yet would only provide enough timber to keep the sawmills going for three years. Forest use figures, such as "indigenous use” (i.e. destroy native forest) 3.4 per cent, are meaningless. What percentage of lowland forest is this? If the Government is really concerned about the Buller region's future, it would create a National Park here. The population of Whataroa area (milling) in 1956 was 398; in 1976 it was 414. The population of Franz Josef (National Park) in 1956 was 114, and in 1976, 521.—Yours, etc., MARK AUSTIN. January 21, 1982.
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