Thread: Eugenie Sage

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

The biggest uncontrolled animal problem in the open dryer country of the South Island is Hares. Hares do an incredible amount of damage to regeneration, nipping off seedlings at ground level and smaller trees about 250 mm above the ground. In any discussion regarding wild animal numbers and population limits hares need to be included. Much high country in Canterbury was burnt in the early days for sheep grazing and now it is retired. Where there are populations of Hares the regen is very slow. My 2c

Your dead right there Moa Hunter.
Most if not all of the big high up basins back in the early ti mid 70's were alive with hares.
When the Thar culling was coming to an end we were asked/told to clean up hares,,found that rather uninteresting work at altitude lol.
Believe it or not grass hoppers were darn thick on the ground then also.
Don't know what hare numbers are like nowadays up on the high stuff.

Originally Posted by doinit

Your dead right there Moa Hunter.
Most if not all of the big high up basins back in the early ti mid 70's were alive with hares.
When the Thar culling was coming to an end we were asked/told to clean up hares,,found that rather uninteresting work at altitude lol.
Believe it or not grass hoppers were darn thick on the ground then also.
Don't know what hare numbers are like nowadays up on the high stuff.

Hare numbers are fair high in my eyes. There is also a large amount of grass hoppers getting around where I hunt


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As I've said elsewhere we need to get a wider conversation going to break down the ideological barriers - it's not just Tahr . . . are they going to go after (eradicate?) Blackbirds and Skylarks, Harrier Hawks, Salmon/Trout, english grasses, wasps, mice - if they stop to think about it a bit surely some of them will wake up ??

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Yip.

done my bit but the silly bitch will ignore us.