Park to be or not to be?
Just over 19,200 hectares of land in the Cox River-Binser Saddle area could be
included in the Arthurs Pass National Park. The long-awaited report outlining the possible extension has just come to hand. It embraces nearly 7,000 ha of ~unalienated Crown land, 8,900 ha of State forest and nearly 3,400 ha of the Mt White Station run. The report canvasses other options for these lands such as private disposal, State forest or reserve. The authors of the report have only given the area a rather lukewarm rating for protection ‘‘because there is little known biological data’’ — this is unfortunate and Society members should press for Park inclusion plus further research where needed. If you known of or are interest in the area, write to the Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch for a copy of the report. The deadline for submissions is 30 August 1985.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FORBI19850801.2.31.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 August 1985, Page 32
Word count
Tapeke kupu
152Park to be or not to be? Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 August 1985, Page 32
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
For material that is still in copyright, Forest & Bird have made it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This periodical is not available for commercial use without the consent of Forest & Bird. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this magazine please refer to our copyright guide.
Forest & Bird has made best efforts to contact all third-party copyright holders. If you are the rights holder of any material published in Forest & Bird's magazine and would like to discuss this, please contact Forest & Bird at editor@forestandbird.org.nz
Log in