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RIMU FOREST MANAGEMENT, WESTLAND. What to avoid.

Plate 7. —High Lead Logging in Coastal Pole-type Rimu Stands.

To secure relatively few trees many hundreds of young trees have been razed to the ground, leaving devastation and high lire hazard.

Plate 8. —High Lead Logging in Rimu-Kamahi Stands.

The fire hazard lias been very greatly increased and the protective value of the remaining forest diminished.

What to perpetuate.

Plate 9. —General View of Typical Coastal Rimupole Type.

Rimu stand from which millable logs may bo procured at thirty year or other intervals by selective logging.

Plate 10. —Close up of Rimu-pole Type Forest, showing some Larger Trees to be removed by Selective Logging.

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