High Country Grasslands Park Opened
—ALAN MARK
orest and Bird has been celebrating the opening of New Zealand’s first tussocklands conservation park, Korowai/ Torlesse, in the mountains inland from Christchurch. The picture at right includes the official party at the opening with Hugh Logan, DirectorGeneral of the Department of Conservation, speaking. To his right is former Forest and Bird executive member Di Lucas, (chair of the Nature Heritage Committee which arranged purchase, on behalf of the Crown, of some of the run country comprising the Park); Dr Gerry McSweeney (representing Forest and Bird
which initiated the conservation park proposal more than 10 years ago); the Minister of Conservation, Hon.Sandra Lee, also a former Forest and Bird executive member; and James Guild, a high-country farmer and previous chair of the Canterbury/Aoraki Conservation Board, which promoted and endorsed the proposed park. (Values of the park were outlined in Forest &
bird, August 2001.) |
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Forest and Bird, Issue 303, 1 February 2002, Page 38
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