CARBON SEQUESTRATION
New Zealand Carbon Farming
2 days ago Guest Blogger 33 Comments
Opinion by Tony Orman
In April last year, I went trout fishing to a stream that is a tributary of the Wairau River. It is also an important spawning stream for both brown trout and probably some salmon. It is also a habitat for native fish.
At the road bridge just above its confluence with its parent river, it was a mere trickle. A couple of kilometres upstream it was dry river bed, whereas in previous decades it always had a healthy year-round flow.
The reason was not hard to identify.
There was once a fine trout fishing and trout spawning stream here
The catchment in the main is covered in maturing pine trees and as the trees grow, sucking more and more water out of the ecosystem.
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