SOIL EROSION
METHODS OF CONTROL
Mention is made in the annual report of the State Forest Service of a proposal to incorporate as an integral part of future activities a number of soil erosion-control projects to investigate and demonstrate the various methods of control which hold any promise of effective remedy.
After stating that the fundamental causes of erosion in New Zealand have been fire and grazing, the report states that it seems more necessary than ever that legislation for dealing with the problem of fire prevention should be widened so far as State forests are' concerned and extended to embrace other land tenures as well.'
In the meantime, constant appeal is being made to settlers to do all possible in protecting watershed bush against
fire and overgrazing. The report points out that such a form of protection, if made on a national scale, will secure re-establishment to some type of vegetative cover and, in any event, is a necessary pre-requisite to any local attempts to control erosion by planting of any kind.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 5
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173SOIL EROSION Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 5
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