Trees to chips
Sir,—l notice that Canterbury forests are regularly harvested, cultivated, replanted and then 'reharvested in a steady replacement cycle. Bernie Calder (January 24) misleads by talking of birds "permanently squeezed” into other areas. Beech trees, like other trees, can be harvested, cultivated, replanted and then reharvested in a regular replacement cycle. The birds need suffer only a temporary displacement, unlike people, for whom preservationists seem to have little regard. Idealism will permanently squeeze out people from their homes and into other existing and already socially unstable areas such as South Auckland. The heading of this column needs adjustment: “Trees to trees” would be more accurate. — Yours, etc., DAVID RATHGEN. Hokitika, January 26, 1987.
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Press, 3 February 1987, Page 16
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