Thread: Any ex NZ forest service fellas here?

Ive seen a few of them over the years,the other thing you can still find in random places is a room sized fenced enclosure.....first time I thought it was someones hooch garden.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Ive seen a few of them over the years,the other thing you can still find in random places is a room sized fenced enclosure.....first time I thought it was someones hooch garden.

Yeah, the real term is "exclosure"..designed to keep grazing animals out so the growth outside could be compared with the growth inside.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Ive seen a few of them over the years,the other thing you can still find in random places is a room sized fenced enclosure.....first time I thought it was someones hooch garden.

Haha, yeah, found one of them up the horomunga years ago and stopped in my tracks thinking I'd walked upon a grow site.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

Haha, yeah, found one of them up the horomunga years ago and stopped in my tracks thinking I'd walked upon a grow site.

That’d be the one on the left as you walk up river ?
Half way up the ridge ?
Run across it years ago, up there.

I wonder if those were actually FRI (Forest research Institute).

There's an exclosure plot right beside the track near Mangamuka hut in the Kaimais. Quite instructive trying to look into it. Putting those up definitely happened before any Health and Safety rules. Untrained town boys fencing with big posts and barbed wire way out in the hills ...

Originally Posted by Frogfeatures

That’d be the one on the left as you walk up river ?
Half way up the ridge ?
Run across it years ago, up there.

Yes @Frogfeatures, near one of the red dots or maybe a ridge a bit further back across from midway hut site.

I think most jokers working for FS would have taken offence in being labelled a townie.

Thanks Bluebaiter, most of us did.