Forest and Bird Destroyers
AN OLD SETTLER’S VIEWS.
of the greatest crimes of civilisation V,/ has been the way we have dealt with our forests. For the sake of a few, sadly few, years of more or less indifferent grazing we have denuded our steep hillsides of the cloak of beauty that clothed them, and now that the roots are decaying the land is slipping off the hill faces, leaving an unsightly bare ruin, of no value to man or beast, and destined all too soon to become a wilderness of noxious weeds. We have cut out in the most wasteful manner possible our great stands of timber, using perhaps one fourth of it, and allowing the rest to burn and rot. By doing mischief in this wholesale manner we have choked up our river-valleys, flooded our rich alluvial flats, and dried up the spring that means so much to the pastoralist.”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 59, 1 February 1941, Page 7
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152Forest and Bird Destroyers Forest and Bird, Issue 59, 1 February 1941, Page 7
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