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One bad rainstorm away from disaster: why proposed changes to forestry rules won’t solve the ‘slash’ problem

By Mark Bloomberg, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Te Kura Ngahere-New Zealand School of Forestry, University of Canterbury
Steve Urlich, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Even when forestry companies fully comply with current standards, slash discharge and erosion can happen. New rules must set size and location limits on clear-felling.

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