Westland forests
Sir, —Advocates of further reserves on the West Coast regularly imply that tourism and timber production are incompatible. Forty-two per cent of the West Coast is protection forest and reserves; 13 per cent is production forests. All of this production area can be utilised without adversely affecting the tourist potential. The situation on the West Coast is now becoming so 'extreme that there is a risk that no-one will believe it. If the Blakely report is accepted, and also the further reservation now promised by the National Party, then West Coast people have available to them less than 10 per cent of their land from which to derive the wealth required to provide normal services in a region that extends for a distance equivalent to that from Auckland to Wellington.— Yours, etc., J. R. O’REGAN. Reefton, May 18, 1987.
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