Attacking cliff trees
Why would anyone spend their Saturdays abseiling down a 200 metre cliff to cut down a half-metre tall pine tree?
A group of four Ruapehu ski patrollers were doing just that as part of the Army's Pinus Contorta eradication programme last Saturday. The quartet worked all last week on the project and two of them will continue weekends from now until it is complete. Programme co-ordina-tor Pauline Murphy said
a 30 minute climb to kill one small tree may seem an excessive effort but if the tree was left to grow and seed in a few years' time they could be facing having to climb to kill 50 trees seeded from that one individual. The climbers, Phil Couch, Tom Mannering, Greg Hill and Rowan Bailey, are working
their way through a two kilometre long ravine on the Moawhango River in the Waiouru Army Training Group training area, clearing the contorta from the cliff faces, ridge tops and slopes. Many of the sites are exposed to prevailing winds which is another reason for clearing the area as the seeds from such trees could infest a wider area. Turnpagez
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 8, Issue 371, 29 January 1991, Page 1
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