dead trees in park

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1935, Page 7

dead trees in park

‘SHOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED.” PRESERVING LIVELY GROWTH. Criticism of the policy of the Egmont National Park Board in rigidly prohibiting the removal of trees from the reserve was expressed by . a man in the timber trad* in Taranaki to a Daily News representative yesterday. That policy had resulted in damage to the bush rather than in the assistance of its preservation. One had only to go into the bush inside the radius line to the east of the North Egmont track to see where large trees had been blown down by the wind. Their rotting logs lay five and six deep in places. If these trees had been cut and removed before they died there would have been a stronger and more flourishing bush and the wind would not have had a chance to level a great deal of undergrowth by sending such big trees crashing in any direction. There seemed no reason, he said, why the board could not have large trees removed in case?, where valuable timber was being wasted. The tree could be felled with less damage to the surrounding bush,'and the small area planted with Oregon pine or similar trees. In this way the forest would be kept young, the undergrowth and surrounding trees not hindered and a valuable source of revenue provided for the. board...