Clearfelling claim emphatically denied
The clearfelling of native the clearfelling of native forest at Waituhi in the forest at Waituhi, said Mr Pureora forest park was not Salmon. approved by conservation- It was “bizarre” to state ists, said the director of the the contrary, he said.
The clearfelling of native forest at Waituhi in the Pureora forest park was not approved by conservationists, said the director of the Joint Campaign on Native Forests, Mr Guy Salmon. Mr Salmon was replying to a claim by the DirectorGeneral of Forests, Mr Andrew Kirkland, that conservationists had supported Waituhi clearfelling.
Conservationists were, however, generally happy to see pines planted on derelict land which had long since been cleared of native forest.
In 1981 47 conservation and recreation organisations made submissions on the Forest Service’s draft management plan for the area, and none of these supported
“The Forest Service has already lost credibility on this issue. It will lose a lot more credibility if it tries to pretend it was only doing what conservationists wanted,” he said.
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