Thread: Southland Hunters; hunting in the Longwood?

Busy place the Longwoods, especially this time of year.

It is solely up to the hunter to ensure he/she has the right permissions to be on the land they are hunting on. wams.co.nz is a good starting point for boundaries etc.

Good reminder mate, cheers for putting it up.

As for native logging, not many places it is still happening, but it is still happening. Providing the tracks and roads do not re grow in gorse (often spread by machines ex agriculture/scrub clearing/etc) the native regen comes away very quickly. Within 5 years bulldozed tracks are often impassable because fern and native seedlings are so far established. In those years of regeneration the logging tracks can make for some exciting hunting. By selective logging and removing mature trees it opens up the canopy and allows light through to encourage new seedling growth. Often where a dozer has pulled a rimu out and disturbed the soils, in its place there will be many young rimus coming through the regen fern (which grows first). It doesn't take long. I have grown up surrounded by native logging, and have experienced it first hand both with ground based and heli-logging and it has always surprises me how fast the regrowth establishes itself when I revisit those areas.

thanks for the link to WAMS - I never knew it existed!

and you're right about those old bulldozed tracks - very exciting!

Originally Posted by JoshC

(often spread by machines ex agriculture/scrub clearing/etc)

And this is a MAJOR problem here. Why the hell wash downs etc aren't compulsory around this country has me beat. Get the machine in to cut tracks after it's been on gorse clearing else where. Yer. That's real brainy. :rolleyes: