Trees to chips
Sir, — Bernie Calder (February 6) in writing about the effect of beech logging on native wildlife is correct in saying, albeit not in so many words, that environmentalists spent a great deal of time opposing the Newmans chip mill in Nelson but seem to forget, or to ignore, the large Forest Service beech scheme of 84,000 ha. I, too, find it difficult to understand how a group of environmentalists can form a human chain around the Nelson chip mill (including myself) yet seem to accept this
monstrous or, as Bernie Calder calls it, extravagant. beech scheme. Fortunately, a group which calls itself Beech Action Committee has been set up. As one Nelson environmentalist wrote recently when referring to 8.A.C., “the conservation movement always needs a conscience.” Let us hope that B.A.C. can help many people to see more clearly that this beech scheme will kill most of the native wildlife at present supported within these forests. — Yours, etc., HENK HEINEKAMP. Stoke, February 8, 1987.
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