Does anyone know what the pink and blue ribbons tied to trees indicate?
I thought it was for traps but saw quite a few on a walk up a side creek today with nothing near them that I could see.
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Does anyone know what the pink and blue ribbons tied to trees indicate?
I thought it was for traps but saw quite a few on a walk up a side creek today with nothing near them that I could see.
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I've used them for track marking
Yeah I thought that too but it was just a riverbed really so no real need for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by charliehorse
Only other thing I could think of was sites for monitoring birds or something
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Sometimes they’re used for trapline marking for the start of the line rather than each particular trap. “From marker, one trap every x metres along y bearing”
Pink/Blue is for traplines isn't it? Pink is to mark the trapline and Blue the actual trap location
Thanks, I couldn’t find any traps near them but it has had heavy rain within the last few months so things could well have washed away
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I use them to mark the start of path for climbing up around around buy passing bluffs.
Some trap lines around here blue markers for trap locations, other times just mark start of trapline. Pink ribbon to mark track. Some places around sounds you’d think the person marking the tracks had shares in the manufacturing plant or they’re not very confident navigating bush.
could be an old trap line and haven't taken markers down?
In my park workplace, blue tape indicated a botanical issue (species under research, or a weed to be monitored after control measures) and pink tape was for pest control. They usually had code letters/numbers. or a compass bearing on them. Blue tape might indicate a survey line prior to making a new track, or a route into a cannabis plantation(!). DoC and Regional Councils and research agencies use different coloured tape for a whole range of reasons. There is no national standard for the use of tape in the forest.
You can buy marker tape in any farm supply shop, all kinds of useful colours.
Around here DOC and Project Janszoon (Abel Tasman National Park management group) use pink triangles or tapes for pest control lines with blue for individual traps.
Tramping tracks have the usual orange triangles.
Cant anyone just remember where your going and where you have been ????
It painful finding 178,899,392,546 pieces of plastic stuck to things, bad enough when it was tin lids and alloy squares or bits of Venetian blinds
It’s actually fun using your memory :)
Agree, some people would leave a continuous guide line if they could be bothered carrying a big enough ball of string. Where’s the adventure?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmsaum
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Or a gps
Pink tape hanging in trees is generally an indication that wanker wannabe types who have no respect for nature and our forest have passed that way. Rip it down and take it out of the bush.
To mark a point in the bush use a 'fern arrow' that is a piece of crown fern or punga etc upside down showing the silver underside.
Bending over ferns works pretty good too.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmsaum
Whenever I was carrying out a track inspection and I found a line of tapes that led to a cannabis plantation in the park, I would remove the last 50 per cent of the tapes and reattach them to trees so they would lead back to the track.
until only very recently I never realised that pink tape was plastic... for some reason I thought they'd use something biodegradable...
Connovation do (or used to) sell biodegradable tapes. Not as reflective as the pretty plastic stuff, but If you're looking for it, easily spotted.
Since anyone can buy flagging tape, there's really no telling what it could indicate. Just that the human there before you, felt the need to indicate it.
And keep it all for yourself?? tut tut. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Ranger 888
The yellow and orange (second and third from top in stack) are government-approved plastic fantastic. The rest are the biodegradable. Under LED light at night. (now)
And I've just realised, even the biodegradable will choke a tree.
Ha ha! Brought it back,,yep! Destroyed it..yep!Quote:
Originally Posted by 11mms