Thread: No 1080 for nelson lakes this year!

Originally Posted by deer243

Good news for us locals, Nelson lakes isnt going to be 1080 this year to to low rat numbers and low beech seeding they saying. Cant believe DOC has done a u turn...maybe its more to do with the low kea numbers after last time and trying to save the few remaining birds . Anyway, its only good news

So if Nelson lakes national park beech is not going to seed heavily this year how is it that Kahurangi beech is going to? seeing as they are only separated by a few km in parts.

Maybe it is just the biggest area (dollars to apply) less visited(less opposition)

Or maybe I am too cynical.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Or maybe I am too cynical.

It's that. Seedfall and rodent tracking varies quite a lot even with "small" geographical displacement like that...

the decisions are being made the same as always, based on monitoring data.

Originally Posted by gimp

It's that. Seedfall and rodent tracking varies quite a lot even with "small" geographical displacement like that...

the decisions are being made the same as always, based on monitoring data.

So do the whole park rather than "small" pockets ?

Originally Posted by gimp

It's that. Seedfall and rodent tracking varies quite a lot even with "small" geographical displacement like that...

the decisions are being made the same as always, based on monitoring data.

Know of a small local area DOC, where the possum monitoring was close to zero. 10 km away in another area was quite high. Guess what, both areas were done, they said it couldn't be left as they were working nearby.