Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 19. August 6 1979

What do we find in 1979?

What do we find in 1979?

Of the 500 hectares of dying forest all but 40 hectares was clear-felled. The remaining 40 hectares has now recovered and is alive, and well and all set for another 800 years or so of life ! The Forest Service have committed perhaps the most heinous crime of the the entire history of man in New Zealand. Their blind arrogance in presuming to know better than nature (and that's only crossing their fingers and hoping) has cost us our last totara forest and probably completely unnecessarily.

The third area of totara forest which was not to be touched unless it too tried to die, the Forest Service is now logging regardless of earlier interviews to reserve it. At current logging rates this last stand will be extinct in 14 years.

Despite blatant evidence of 40 hectares of healthy totara forest, the Forest Service will not admit they might have been wrong. Like the spot of blood on the hand of Lady Mac-Beth, this 'spot' of totara forest will haunt the Forest Service till their dying day.