Thread: Pre baiting 1080

I established a training crew in our logging operations 40 years back and even then we lost about 30% of each intake and I think this is pretty normal and a cost that is simply another overhead. A few years down the track about a further 50% are gone to other occupations but I see nothing especially unusual about that either as it happens in many industries. I think back to NZFS formal Woodsman and Forest Ranger trainee intakes and the similar cadetships in the larger forestry companies; these formal qualifying training courses which took a few years to complete turned out some good career men but there was still an attrition rate over decades. Again, I consider this normal. If formalised trapping schools were propey set up I think similar career histories would occur and would to a large extent eluminate aerial poisoning as a common and expensive tool. For some reason this option never develiped beyond the old boy network of the DPF, which, in my view has been a great shame. However some intelligent governance not bogged down with the current mental blocks cluld change all this.