Forest policies
Sir,—The Forest Service’s credibility bottoms when its senior staff (Michael Orchard, “The Press,” April 19) have to use these columns in their private capacity to try to counter public criticism of their department. The Forest Service is currently supporting logging in proposed reserves repeatedly requested by the D.S.I.R. and Wildlife Service for the maintenance of native bird populations. The
Forest Service’s own research into Southland beech management has confirmed the drastic effect current practices have on populations of the less adaptive native bird species. Michael Orchard should be Well aware that most forests reserved on the West Coast are mountain or steepland protection forests, partly because of the terrain but also because the Forest Service has vigorously contested proposals to reserve lowland forests. — Yours, etc., BERNIE CALDER. April 19, 1986.
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