Our thanks must go to the Hon Dr Nick Smith for taking a very pragmatic approach to conservation. He introduced and passed legislation in this House to allow the harvesting of some of those trees, outside of the nature reserves, outside of scientific reserves, ecological areas, and national parks. Urgency was required because there was a time limit to how long the trees can maintain their integrity before the mould and the borer starts to degrade the quality of the timber. That particular legislation, the West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) Act, was for a period of five years to allow time to harvest the trees for this one-weather event, and it expired in 2019. But then, in 2018, came Cyclone Fehi, followed a few days later by Cyclone Gita, which devastated the Tasman region. In fact, the repairs to the Tākaka Hill are still under way as a consequence. Further damage was done to other West Coast forests, but because of the legislation that was passed in 2014, which allowed only for the extraction of trees that came down in Cyclone Ita and it was time limited, no further extraction of any other trees could be made off Crown-managed land. 