Analysis of New Zealand parliamentary debates, official papers and scientific and popular journals reveals considerable debate on the perceived impact of deforestation on local and regional meteorological conditions. As part of broader concerns about the effects of deforestation on timber supplies, health and hydrology, climatic arguments played an important role in attempts to introduce state forest conservation into New Zealand in the nineteenth century and to thereby increase government intervention in society. This article examines these debates and how, over time, climatic arguments became decoupled from wider concerns about the effects of deforestation. More particularly, this article investigates how supporters and opponents of climatic forestry tried to legitimise their stance through recourse to ideas about science.
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