Call for wider enquiry into forestry slash

Slash pile at Mangakura.

Slash in Hoteo River after Cyclone Gabrielle.

This photo taken in Puhoi demonstrates, forestry slash is not a problem isolated to the East Cape.

Slash pile at Mangakura.

A ministerial inquiry into land use, including forestry slash and sediment damage, in Tairawhiti should be expanded to cover the whole of New Zealand, according to a retired Kaipara landowner Jerry Rees-Webbe.

He says the impacts of clear felling forestry practices is not a problem that is isolated to the East Cape, but is a national issue.

Rees-Webbe wrote to Whangaparaoa MP Mark Mi...