To me, access to DOC land is the biggest problem for the recreational hunter wanting to help control Tahr. There is certainly a lot of land that was retired from pastoral lease grazing and into DOC stewardship under tenor review. In a lot of cases access to this crown land is across private land and that access is often made difficult. In many cases there are unformed public roads across the private land onto DOC but they are not able to be used because they are not marked, so there is a risk of trespass in attempting to use them.
Q. How easy is it to accurately mark the course of an unformed road from GPS ? This is something that Councils must do not DOC, but if there is enough support for a road to be opened the councils will be forced to do it.
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