Forestry is forever

Forestry is cropping in the widest sense of the word … farming of permanent crops … the long range husbandry of different types of trees for different purposes … the planning of vast forests and the equally important planning of their utilisation. Forestry is soil research and plant research, cultivation and protection from fire and other forest enemies … forestry is the conservation of national timber resources … the protection of watersheds, the preservation of tourist and recreational areas. Forestry is surveying, roadmaking, trucking, milling and exporting … a planned primary industry, economically sound, that will ensure in New Zealand “forestry is forever”.

Inserted in the interests of forest protection by the New Zealand Forest Service … Soil Conservation Council.