Exploring the central Otago high country
Mike Floate
ollowing the old Dunstan Fes: trail, members of Upper Clutha Forest and Bird explored the central Otago uplands and met with Dunedin Forest and Bird members during a weekend trip. Led by former member of the Otago Conservation Board, Mike Floate, the party explored the Lammerlaws and Lammermoors, travelling some 20 kilometres across Rocklands Station. About 12,000 hectares of the Rocklands pas-
toral lease has been retired as conservation land out of an original 30,000 hectares. The new conservation land includes four special areas: Taeiri Rapids and part of the upper Taieri plain; the Deep Stream gorge; some 3500 hectares of upland
snow tussock, the largest unmodified snow tussock grassland in Otago, including finger bogs, bog pools and snowbank communities; and the shrublands in a gorge of the upper Deep Creek which contains remnant totara.
The tour also included the Sinclair wetlands on the Taieri Plain. This area was recently purchased by the Crown from Ducks Unlimited and passed to Ngai Tahu as part of their claims settlement. A former Forest and Bird president, Emeritus Professor Alan Mark, guided the combined party on Sunday, meeting at Lake Mahinerangi and travelling to the Black Rock Scientific Reserve to see snow tussock, a trial burning plot near Deep Stream reserve, and the Nardoo Scenic Reserve rising to the crest of the Lammermoors overlooking Lake
Mahinerangi. Source:
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Forest and Bird, Issue 292, 1 May 1999, Page 44
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