Forest-Service
[Sir,—The Treasury has seen fit to-recommend to the Government (“The Press,” June 25), that the Forest Service be made into a commercially accountable corporation, without being involved in conservation. Our indigenous forests could then be placed under a Nature Conservancy, along with our national parks, wetlands, coastlines, reserves, tussock lands and, most important, all Crown land. It is vital that the Nature Conservancy Council be in complete control of all these areas, and be only accountable to the Prime Minister. For far too long the Forest Service has been above accountability. Even when presented with an economic analysis on exotic forests by Dr Grant, the Director-General dismissed the report as fallacious and said he had more important things to do than waste his time on it. — Yours, etc., STAN HEMSLEY. August 23, 1985.
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