Karamea's Swampy Tarn deserves protection
Forest and Bird’s newest group at Karamea are fighting to save virgin forest around a tranquil lake near the Karamea end of the famous Wangapeka Track. Swampy Tarn and the kahikatea/rimu in its catchment are in the North-West Nelson State Forest Park. That hasn’t stopped this area being zoned for logging in the 1981 Buller Management Plan. Clearfelling of podocarps has progressed from the end of Wangapeka track right up to the edge of the Swampy Tarn catchment. Many Karamea people support efforts to protect the Swampy Tarn catchment and the now famous Oparara Valley from logging. These are key natural areas in the heart of New Zealand’s largest Forest Park and if they are lost to logging it will reveal once and for all the inappropriateness of the ‘‘Park’’ title. Forest Service, Nelson have promised to ‘‘look into’’ this issue.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FORBI19850501.2.22.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 May 1985, Page 23
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146Karamea's Swampy Tarn deserves protection Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 May 1985, Page 23
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
For material that is still in copyright, Forest & Bird have made it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This periodical is not available for commercial use without the consent of Forest & Bird. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this magazine please refer to our copyright guide.
Forest & Bird has made best efforts to contact all third-party copyright holders. If you are the rights holder of any material published in Forest & Bird's magazine and would like to discuss this, please contact Forest & Bird at editor@forestandbird.org.nz
Log in