Survey advocated
A survey to boost the knowledge of the various categories of partially logged and cut-over forest was advocated by a member of the New Zealand Institute of Foresters, Mr Prestley Thomson, at its annual meeting in Greymouth.
He said this move was a challenge to the Conservation Department. “We do not know nearly enough about the various categories of partially logged and cut-over forest, their exact extent or their current condition.”
Over the years the unwanted hardwoods, with the few residual podocarps, had maintained a forest structure of sorts
with, often good hardwood regrowth “though sadly with generally inadequate podocarp regeneration.” “The heartening fact is that some, at least, of these areas , have an undoubted long-term potential for sustained wood production.” The same
sort of conditions applied to the terrace rimu cutovers on the West Coast. “Given continued protection from fire and animals, future crops of rimu would seem to be more of a probability rather than, as elsewhere, a remote
possibility, as does a successful multiple-use operation underpinned by commercial wood production,” Mr Thomson said.
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