Cyclone Gabrielle exposed the risks of forestry slash. New research suggests little has changed
- Written by Steve Urlich, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Alan Gibson/Getty ImagesWhen Cyclone Gabrielle tore through New Zealand’s Tairāwhiti region in 2023, it left behind more than silt and floodwaters.
Rivers were choked with forestry debris, beaches littered with logs, and homes, bridges and farmland buried under tonnes of forestry slash swept down from hillsides.
The scale of the impacts...





