Chao Kuo-chao, director of the Sixth Work Office of the Mountain Agricultural Resources Development Bureau, which has responsibility for land management and flood control in Hualien, says perplexedly that even before the "old wounds" can be healed upstream, new injuries--excessive deforestation--are being incurred on the slopes midstream and downstream.
主管花蓮治山防洪工作的台灣省水土保持局第六工程所所長趙國昭頗傷腦筋的說，上游「舊疤」未愈，如今中、下游山坡地卻新傷﹘﹘濫墾﹘﹘纍纍。