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Retrieving beech logs

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Today, beech logging occurs only in privately owned forest, and it must be carried out in a sustainable way. It is economic to bring out single logs by helicopter.

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Joanna Orwin, Southern beech forest – Uses and management, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/13330/retrieving-beech-logs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Joanna Orwin, published 1 March 2009.