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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 9 (January 1, 1934)

The Mountain Bush

The Mountain Bush.

The necessity for preserving the native forest on the steep and lofty places of the land has been much discussed in many quarters of late. Writers, speakers, and societies of one kind and another have expressed concern for the future of the land if the protective bush is destroyed, and the Urewera Country in particular has been cited where the saving of the forest from axe and fire should be regarded as a State obligation and duty.

The Huiarau ranges above all should be preserved absolutely untouched. The road from the Rotorua side to Waikaremoana crosses this great broken mass of mountains, the source of many streams and the home of perhaps the loveliest wild gardens of ferns in any part of our North Island bush. But more important than beauty of woodland and fern is the value of these ranges for riverprotection purposes and the regulation of the water-flow.