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ONE hundred years ago New Zealand had 63 million acres of forest; within eighty years it had been reduced to 12 million. Her woodlands had suffered the fate .of those of so many other lands- they had been cut and mangled for immediate gain without any thought of the future. But unlike most lands where this had happened, the New Zealand people awoke to the danger of lost woodlands, and some thirty or forty years ago they decided to change their policy of total destruction for one of preservation and reconstruction. It came gradually, there being a period of overlapping with exploitation and replanting going on side by side. The policy to-day is wholly to preserve and replant.
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LAING, E. A Century in the Forest Life of New Zealand. Nature 145, 943 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145943a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145943a0