Conifers
Sir.—Thanks to Derrick Rooney for his informative articles on conifers in New Zealand. Certainly pines are useful and beautiful in some areas, but their steady encroachment into our unique landscape needs to be halted.
The rambling brown hills and plains of the Mackenzie Country and the tussock landscape have their own aesthetic value. Approximately 80 per vcent.of New Zealnd’s flora is endemic. In our haste to curb erosion and renovate our landscape we are forming permanent communities of conifers, at the expense of our alpine and dryland native vegetation. —
Yours, etc., LESLEY LEARMONTH. May 27, 1982.
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