Thread: Minister of Conservation

$700 per hour!!!!!!!! you must have very fuel efficent machine,or its pedal powered LOL.... shocked to see 91 octane at over the $3 mark yesterday, diesel still creeping upwards,cant imagine avgas of whatever grade will be far behind it.....
we can all agree a good operator in good machine is the ultimate control tool in open country...the trick is to find one who doesnt get greedy and will leave the right animals so as to encourage recreational hunting.
funny how the wheel turns...the NZFS was actively encouraged to put in tracks n huts to get folks out into back country..... thats WHY the plurry things were built,DOC over last 30 years has progressively done less n less to maintain them (no blame or finger pointing,it is what it is) and now folks calling to upgrade these to get people back out there again....access is still an issue in places and also the country beside public land which holds bigger numbers and is closed off/locked up and actively /agressively policed to keep folks off...and even in some cases to try to keep folks away from country they are legally allowed in.....
its like the possum issue...if spotlighting and rimfires were ok..there wouldnt be many possums anywhere close to roads anymore....heck its a whole lot of hoops to jump through to trap or poison them on public land now.... ticket clippers.. I need say no more.