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SYNOPSIS Forestry is an important user of water. It is also, in the eyes of some, an efficient user—and it is undoubtedly a nationally important industry. As pressures for the water resources increase, the forest industry finds itself ranged more and more frequently against both accustomed and previously less recognised users. Industrial and agricultural demands are growing, the needs of the environment are no longer ignored, and rural communities dependent on local water sources have at last found a champion. The consequence has been confusion as much as conflict, with understanding perhaps a bigger problem than knowledge. Far reaching modifications in the exercise of control over new afforestation were imposed early in 1995, and these are shaking out as government moves towards a broadly based national forestry policy. It would seem to be policy in practice that research is no longer needed to prove that trees use water (vide the demise of catchment research experiments), and efforts are now being aimed... |
