FORESTS AND THE FUTURE.
"Are we going to let the rivers keep on washing our future into the sea?" was the question put by Gifford Pinchot in an article on "Flood Control" in The Washington Post (U.S.A.). "A flood is like an epidemic," he eontinued. ''The time to stop it is before it begins. f Until now, however, we have been so to speak, providittg hospitals to take cate of the vietiins instead of establishing quarantines to keep out the disease. We have been building engineering works to take care of the floods after they occur and have done practieally nothitig to prevent the floods from occurring or to reduOe their height and destructiveness when they do take place," That statement appiiOs just as znuch to New Zaeland Where euicidal destruction of protective forests above the sources of rivers goes on and on despite the protests and warniiigs against this form oi treason.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 4
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