Thread: Drones on DOC land

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

hook bush...down in waimate area..the main access track up onto open area(the only area you can effectively hunt) is surrounded by gorse..what the twigs n twitter brigade continue to spout as a nursery plant..if you get in among it ,well you may well end up crying for mummy,but other than that its no nursey at all.....bloddy hard work to get through and its only by continueing effort over last 30 years that track is still there at all...it WAS a clear bulldozed track,there is another bulldozed track up off private land,30 years ago you could have driven up it...now you struggle to find it even when cross it...about 15 years ago someone,somehow sprayed the track....IF DOC would allow a helicopter to do one single spray width up track every 3-5 years the access would be simple and easy,the area would see more visitors and the greenery would continue to grow unharmed.... DOC will not maintain this track,believe me I have asked/begged many times over the years.there used to be benched track up through tussocks,easy grade..I went up with my kids and we marked it with strips of plastic bags,stayed well used for 2 years till some do gooder took them all away.now you cant find it either. so people struggle up ridge getting poked like a pin cushion from the spanyards hiding in tussocks. short sightedness will stuff the back country access sooner or later.

100% spot-on MD!