GORGE HILL — A SOUTHLAND RED TUSSOCK RESERVE
Our Society welcomes the Lands and Survey Department decision to reserve 3100 hectares of red tussock and beech forest in Western Southland. At the time of European settlement lowland tussock grasslands covered 45% of the Southland Land District (excluding Fiordland National Park). Currently less than 10 hectares «f red tussock land is reserved in the District. The protection of Gorge Hill will therefore protect a representative section of pre-European vegetation unreserved elsewhere in New Zealand. The Wildlife Service also wishes to use parts of the Gorge Hill tussock lands to establish an additional population of takahe and takahe breeding facilities. Further tussock land reserves should be forthcoming from studies by the Biological Resources Centre now underway in the South Island high country.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1 May 1984, Page 38
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129GORGE HILL — A SOUTHLAND RED TUSSOCK RESERVE Forest and Bird, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1 May 1984, Page 38
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