Letters to the Editor the Mountain Scene Newspaper 9th May 2013
Sir,
I use to live in the Queenstown Area in the Golden days of 1971 before there was such concepts as Airpoints Monorails, Condominiums or Wilding Pines.
I those days the Conifers in the Town Belt where considered part of the nice Ambience of the place as was the Old Gold Rush heritage Buildings and the Humble Holiday Batches that followed.
Every time I visit Queenstown Now I feel Sickened at the damage that has been inflicted on the Town due to Gross Stupidity and Lack of Vision.
Mark Wilson Is correct, the Dead Trees on the Town Skyline are an example of this. And it is going to take Decades before nature can correct this Blunder, That this same scenic Vandalism is taking place in Skippers and Roaring Meg. It is just mind numbing!
Ironically it is Wilding Humans that are the worst thing Queenstown has to deal with Not Trees.. The Hills today are “Blemished” with truly unsympathetic architecture sprouting willy-nilly everywhere... and now The Once Beautiful Edwardian Style 5 mile shopping Centre Project has turned into something akin to an oversized somewhat skewed out Shipping Container on Steroids!
As for Wilding Pines... Let’s not get obsessive and Panic.. If you can’t be bothered aborting them out as seedlings than you are just too late.
Find some other more worthy Battles: Broom, Gorse, Wasps.
As for Tourists, 99 percent are not botanists and never heard of Wilding Conifers or even care for that matter. Unless they are all Poisoned and Dieing
Sir,
I use to live in the Queenstown Area in the Golden days of 1971 before there was such concepts as Airpoints Monorails, Condominiums or Wilding Pines.
I those days the Conifers in the Town Belt where considered part of the nice Ambience of the place as was the Old Gold Rush heritage Buildings and the Humble Holiday Batches that followed.
Every time I visit Queenstown Now I feel Sickened at the damage that has been inflicted on the Town due to Gross Stupidity and Lack of Vision.
Mark Wilson Is correct, the Dead Trees on the Town Skyline are an example of this. And it is going to take Decades before nature can correct this Blunder, That this same scenic Vandalism is taking place in Skippers and Roaring Meg. It is just mind numbing!
Ironically it is Wilding Humans that are the worst thing Queenstown has to deal with Not Trees.. The Hills today are “Blemished” with truly unsympathetic architecture sprouting willy-nilly everywhere... and now The Once Beautiful Edwardian Style 5 mile shopping Centre Project has turned into something akin to an oversized somewhat skewed out Shipping Container on Steroids!
As for Wilding Pines... Let’s not get obsessive and Panic.. If you can’t be bothered aborting them out as seedlings than you are just too late.
Find some other more worthy Battles: Broom, Gorse, Wasps.
As for Tourists, 99 percent are not botanists and never heard of Wilding Conifers or even care for that matter. Unless they are all Poisoned and Dieing
Yes the ape decendants of Earth have gone amuck again, it's that old Question of What is Beauty and Truth cropping up again!
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