Just inside the upper entrance to Bamboo Cave in Alpha Creek. Bamboo Cave contains two fossilised whale skeletons over 30 million years old and is in the heart of the area which Milburn would have the right to quarry if granted the mining licence and other resource consents which it is now seeking. Left to right are Graham (Chippy) Wood, conservation officer, Punakaiki; Bill Winstanley, former chairman of the Nelson Conservation Board; Phil Wood, guru of caving and cave exploration in the Buller; Chris Winstanley (front), deputy principal of Buller High School; and Deborah Carden, DoC field centre manager at Punakaiki.
ANDY DENNIS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 282, 1 November 1996, Page 29
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103Just inside the upper entrance to Bamboo Cave in Alpha Creek. Bamboo Cave contains two fossilised whale skeletons over 30 million years old and is in the heart of the area which Milburn would have the right to quarry if granted the mining licence and other resource consents which it is now seeking. Left to right are Graham (Chippy) Wood, conservation officer, Punakaiki; Bill Winstanley, former chairman of the Nelson Conservation Board; Phil Wood, guru of caving and cave exploration in the Buller; Chris Winstanley (front), deputy principal of Buller High School; and Deborah Carden, DoC field centre manager at Punakaiki. ANDY DENNIS Forest and Bird, Issue 282, 1 November 1996, Page 29
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