Tasman farmer adds to calls for tougher controls on forestryCHERIE SIVIGNON/STUFF Farmer and historian Edward Stevens with some logs that washed onto Ngatimoti farmland when ex-Tropical Cyclone Gita hit the Nelson-Tasman region. This strip of granitic bedrock is about 10km wide and extends for more than 100km from Separation Point in Abel Tasman National Park to Mt Murchison. Separation Point granite is also extremely erodible and readily breaks, forming a coarse sand that can be seen on the golden beaches of the district. Another 450ha of plantings were established at Waiwhero on land part Separation Point granite and part Moutere clay. "We have long recognised the challenges of [Separation Point granite]," Bush-King says, adding that staff are developing advice on appropriate restrictions.

Source: Stuff March 11, 2018 20:26 UTC