FOREST PROTECT ON

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 148, 18 March 1920, Page 8

FOREST PROTECT ON

S : r,-Letters have appeared id-Tub DOMINION anil other newspnpers objectuie to 'the ordinary' methods of tireprotection, and crediting the lownyCoun. cil's forestry people with the wildest statements. 'They are .said to not- )«■ lieye-in fire-lines. There has been such shocking apathy iand neglect m thfc lirepiotection of the Days Bav hush, that some excuse has to he put forward; out «uretv thev need not have ken niadi to say thai they did not believe -v, internat fire-lines, and that such firc-lincs tend to destroy the native .bush. r »«J might as well have been mado to say that they did not believe in street tramoars, for the first street tram-car and the first internal fire-lraes. were made shout the same time. They have not seen internal fire-lines, and co they » »« believe in them. A native from Cential Afrca might say the same thing regarding street trarocars. ■In all "ohemesi). they may well nsli to be saved from their friends! All tht nativn bushes near Wellington have been opened'un with roads and paths during the last few years. We do not see the trees dying. hut, on the contrary, the bush constantly growing out and covering the paths. The wider lines that may be prated and grazed may renum come precautions; "but even tlmt is doubtful. In any ense, an onriiirised fores must have tiro-lines and paths and roads im much as a nlum piuM ; ng_ has pIMM It is to see that such protective fire-linei are-properly made that we want traine< foresters.—l am. etc., . NO TUOFAGTJS.