Thread: Nelson Lakes getting the Green rain over 33000ha in July...better get into it.

Regardless of ones opinion on 1080 drops, I think it is fair to say that DOC's communication of such matters is atrocious.

There is no way that any of us should be finding things like this out on facebook. I am not a facebook user so without @veitnamcam text or @deer243 posting here i would still be unaware of it. (Thanks for that guys, keep it up )

Considering I currently hold a possum trapping permit for parts of the area and a hunting permit both issued by DOC & I ticked the box asking to be emailed alerts for "temporary closures, culling operations or other alerts". Where was my email informing me of this?

After all not all of us want to chain ourselves to trees or sit atop a mountain to stop such things. As effected parties I think it would be decent of them to inform us.

As an aside....as mentioned by @Shearer above this area is heavily used by tourists. I stayed in the Sabine hut the night after lockdown with my son & we had the whole hut to ourselves. I had a look threw the hut book and out of the 50 entry's prior to lockdown 7 were from NZers



So while our country remains closed there may never be a better time to visit the likes of blue lake, Te Araroa trail, able tasman etc.

Find the places in your region that the tourists usually overrun and get amongst it

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