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Michael SmithMichael Smith

Michael Smith is the editor of The Mud, a Rotorua-based news web site. He wrote extensively on the forestry industry changes in the 1980s for the National Business Review, was co-author of multi-client studies on the forest industries in New Zealand, South Africa and Latin America, and the publisher and editor of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal and Yearbook. He is also the author of The Last Newspaper in the World.

Satellite images tell the story of Tolaga Bay’s forestry disaster

4 July 20184 July 2018 by Michael Smith

The impact of forestry on the East Coast came to the fore last month as Tolaga Bay was deluged with offcuts. How did it come to this, asks Michael Smith Satellite images show how the disaster in the forests at Tolaga Bay on New Zealand’s was a long time in the making. The length of … Read more

Categories Featured, Society Tags East Coast, forestry, Gisborne, NZTrees

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