Theres a two week period seemingly over the roar where they don't do it but thats the only rule as far as I'm aware. I complained about two operators in another part of Fiordland last year to no avail as the choppers were hunting directly over DOC tracks and I had photos showing this. Turned out unlike us the WARO operators don't have to be 500 metres from tracks, they can do it pretty much anywhere!
I'm not out for it to be banned and certainly would prefer WARO to 1080 I just want ground hunters to be given a fair crack. A chopper can be out of walking distance within couple of minutes so I don't think it'd be too harsh to have a exclusion zone around roads.
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