West Coast logging
Sir, — Criticism by Mr Simon Upton (July 25) is justified but has little credibility considering his own Government’s neglect. What a shoddy spectacle of political cynicism has been this continued refusal to address the problem of sustained podocarp supply, alternative employment opportunities and reserves additions. Last year’s Government publication, “Harvesting and Marketing Strategy for State Forest Plantations," indicated that sustained podocarp supply would require a reduction to about onesixteenth of recent output in North Westland, one-tenth in Buller and one-eighth in South reserves decisions
could reduce the Buller and North Westland assumptions. Exotic plantations are small in Buller, and token only in South Westland, but in North Westland present production of some 10,000 cubic metres a year will increase to 108,000 in 1993 and 353,000 sustainable from 2008. The Minister of Forests, Mr Wetere, now quotes a sustainable target of only 100,000 cubic metres for all the West Coast (July 24). What a shambles. — Yours, etc., ERIC BENNETT, Wellington. July 27, 1986.
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