Making a New Land by Eric Pawson

Author:Eric Pawson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Otago University Press

Figure 12.4 ‘Giving wings to soil conservation’, 1955. Aerial topdressing provided a means of stabilising at-risk slopes in higher country. Doug Campbell of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council was instrumental in organising the original trials and promoting topdressing as a means of soil conservation. He wrote two SCRCC bulletins on the subject, including this one, and spoke at many meetings in New Zealand and overseas.

Soil erosion never generated the same sort of popular concern as deforestation in New Zealand, although the use of films to publicise its effects heightened public awareness in the 1940s and 1950s. Even so, soil conservation tended to be regarded by the public as a problem for the expert. The caveat was that on-farm soil erosion was a major problem in some regions, and the onus was on remedial action at the farm level. To this end, soil conservators helped farmers to develop land utilisation plans (Figure 12.5). Unlike foresters, soil conservators had to persuade farmers to adopt soil conservation techniques. They were aided by the availability of subsidies through catchment boards for on-farm works.

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