Logs brought down onto farmland in Tolaga Bay, Tairāwhiti, as flooding from Cyclone Gabrielle, Photo: Supplied / Bridget Parker
Tighter regulation have announced for forestry slash - will it be enough for communities fed up with a debris deluge in severe weather?
We hear from the Grant Dodson of the Forestry Owners Association, the Environmental Defence Society's Gary Taylor and Bridget Parker - a farmer whose land was devoured by slash after Gabrielle.
