Thread: $91,000 for 0 goats

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/104...-in-five-years

"If I could hunt in the Hunua Ranges, I would probably go every weekend and I would take my kids."

Isn't that cheating? Easy to find goats when you take your own kids with you.....

This gives a base line for estimates re the added value hunters make to DOC administered land and justify hunting to their neo-liberal paymasters.

Wow, just wow.... Similar problems here where helicopter waro for version is used to control deer numbers but no access for recreational hunting.... (private property) as rupert says it goes to show the value of hunters.

Wonder if those figures are for eradication or control? Eradication could be expensive to get the last couple

Why don't the council sell limited goat hunting permits for recreational hunters? Hunters happy, goat numbers controlled and revenue gained.

There used to be a permit system from franklin council. Get a permit valid for a year. Dont know why it stopped

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

Why don't the council sell limited goat hunting permits for recreational hunters? Hunters happy, goat numbers controlled and revenue gained.

There would have to be something to hunt and presumably they are aiming for zero goats as per pest/predator free nz by 2020 or is it 2025 or 2050?

They could pay us and come out with the same results, this is the problem I see with this Predator Free NZ when you go for eradication it is costly and time consuming, imagine the process and cost for rats, mice, possum, mustilids (x 3) cats etc it will bankrupt the country especially with current methods.

i think at a push i could shoot no goats for $91000......
actually i havent shot any in the 2016/2017 year...... $91k earned , i must remind them of my bank account number

On the plus side, they didn't spend a million plus on the green rain. Or is this on top of that outstanding result? Oh and I am joking.

There’s a few “expensive goats” in Auckland Council that need culling that’s for sure.

You can hunt the Southern "DOC part of the ranges" on an open Permit. Problem is the same cullers go through there so there's fuck all in there. The permits for pigs are easy enough to get but with all the other recreational user firearms are a no go.

Originally Posted by Steve123

You can hunt the Southern "DOC part of the ranges" on an open Permit.

Not according to DOC.
You need a special permit from the Auckland office, the open permit doesn't cover this area.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-rec...#activitypanel

Originally Posted by Cigar

Not according to DOC.
You need a special permit from the Auckland office, the open permit doesn't cover this area.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-rec...#activitypanel

Must be a recent change. Last couple of years or so. Fuck all there anyway

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Originally Posted by Preacher

On the plus side, they didn't spend a million plus on the green rain. Or is this on top of that outstanding result? Oh and I am joking.

dunno how much they spent ut they did drop the green stuff in there a couple of seasons ago........ but its ok .....only auckland draws its drinking water from there ...........