Tasman communities hit by growing trees not slash

Tasman communities hit by growing trees not slash

Friday 18 Jul 2025

A forestry industry leader says many of the trees that came down in Tasman areas were growing trees that had fallen, not slash.

The head of the Forest Owners Association is flying to flood damaged Tasman as it grapples with fallen trees, forestry slash and silt. It appears the forestry industry itself has taken a big hit with thousands of hectares of pine plantation wiped out.

The association's chief executive Elizabeth Heeg told Morning Report the forestry industry was open to changing their management operations.

"I appreciate in a really hard event, like what we have just been through, that it seems like there should be a way for us to prevent the wood coming down into the communities, and that's something that we are really interested in working with the communities on."

But she said there were several areas that weren't active harvesting operations - which produces slash - but rather growing trees that came down.

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Source: RNZ

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