Lovely Lindis
Methven
MARY RALSTON,
I was very disappointed to read the caption to a photograph of the Lindis Pass (‘Lindis Pass is one of the most striking tussock landscapes in Otago’) in the May issue. In fact, the tussock landscape of the Lindis Pass is quite degraded — even idly looking out a car window one can tell that the tall tussocks are restricted to patches in the wetter areas, there is little in the way of herbs and the ridges and convex slopes are dark grey, indicating bare ground or hieracium. The geomorphology and emptiness of the Lindis definitely makes for a grand landscape but we should be careful to be scientific in our assessments of the vegetation, and not repeat urban myths about the high country.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 310, 1 November 2003, Page 3
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