Pine trees on hills
Sir,—Correspondents criticising . pine plantations have stressed visual damage by growing trees but more serious damage accrued when commercial forestry was al- . lowed by the local authority, the land became permanently useless for any other purpose. When logging starts the hillsides will be _ scarred by numerous bulldozed roads, thousands of stumps, dead windblown trees, slips, rubbish and weeds. The only remaining landuse will be more trees and another cycle of disfigurement. The Civic Trust publicised its objections in a feature article (“The Press,” February 22,1981). It had been claimed that aerial ropeways could replace logging roads but my information from a forest service officer was that the area was too small to justify enormous machinery costs and anchorage problems in rocky ground. Commercial forestry is a ’ disaster in the Port Hills urban environment.—Yours, etc., H. G. ROYDS. May 26, 1983.
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