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The main clearance of pine trees and surrounding natives has been completed in Western Springs Forest. He said it was decided that moving away from Visser’s advice provided a better outcome than spreading the felling and removal of trunks over several years. “That would have been more damaging than doing it once.” Clearing a wider area, chipping logs on site and then replanting with natives across the whole area would get the full regeneration underway sooner, he said. The native trees to be planted would eventually be better for the environment, sequestering more carbon than the ageing pines they replaced.
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Friday, 16 April 2021, 9:00 am
Friday 17 April: Before dawn this
morning 72 year old grandmother Linda Hill climbed atop a
digger being used to cut a logging track through the Western
Springs Forest.
Linda was raised in the area and used
to play in the forest as a child. “I am protecting this
forest for my grandchildren.”
Word of her entry led
to Waitemata Local Board elected representative Sarah
Trotman following her in support.
“This community is
rightly outraged at the disrespect shown then and lack of
authentic engagement around this project and the destruction
being wrought which is not what anyone imagined when they