Pine trees should have never been allowed

[Wainuiguy]

Pines played a huge role in making us a wealthy nation. I cannot see that changing very much in the future. We need timber too much to be prepared to wait for the alternatives to grow. But we do have to do it better, that slash problem is a waste of resources, I think that everytime I pay through the nose for my cats preferred litter - pine pellets...

Surely slash could go into that processing stream?

The pines being planted as carbon sinks are never meant to be harvested.