HO W B. ■H lIIroB 3. FORESTS ARE CROPS Forestry is farming on a large and long term scale, with a crop of trees in place of grass and sheep. The New Zealand Forest Service is responsible for administering over nine million acres of forest reserves. Just as the farmer selects stock and crops, considers climate, geography and soil types so does the forester use scientific research in planting, tending and harvesting a crop which may take fifty years or more to reach maturity. In, the case of Kaingaroa, largest single logging enterprise in the Southern Herrtisphere, forest planning visualised from the first planting the ultimate utilisation of this area— milling and processing for domestic use and export of the many manufactured products which today use timbers as a raw material. Forestry is forever Inserted in the interests of forest protection by the New Zealand Forest Service ... Soil Conservation Council.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 94, Issue 1, 15 January 1957, Page 80
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