tutira regional park development of a park management plan
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Tutira Regional ParkDevelopment of a Park Management Plan
‘...the shallows of the lake were paved with mussel-beds—kakahi, the flavour of its eels was unsurpassed. They were speared in the lakes, they were caught in enormous numbers in eel-weirs—patunas—or in whare tunas built along the edges of streams. In the forests of the interior, pigeon, tui, and kaka abounded; they were captured by means of decoy birds, or snared by natives ambushed beneath selected trees.’
Herbert Guthrie-Smith ‘Tutira’ Chapter 8
Iwi Significance
Oporae
Te Rewa Te Hata-Kani
Herbert Guthrie-Smith
Tutira: The Story of a NZ Sheep Station
If the following pages—if in fact, this whole volume—has a value it is because of
insistence on the cumulative effects of trivialities. This chapter will attempt to
impress upon the reader’s mind details, each one of them insignificant in itself, but far from
futile when in totality conjoined and harmonised. That an appreciation of tardy natural processes and apathy as to distant
results should be general, is however, hardly to be wondered at. Only to
a small number opportunity is offered of marking and tracing them; only a trifling
minority continue in long enough occupation of any one area, fully to be cognisant of their
marshalled immensity. This dearth of long views is part of the price paid by humanity for
the brief existence of its individual units.(Chapter 36)
Land ManagementVegetation Clearance
(Maori & European)
Sheep Station (& Cattle Grazing)
Soil Erosion
Willow Planting
Recreation:the development of a Park
Fishing
Camping
Walking
Education
Interaction
Communication
Heritage
Culture
Research
The HBRC Regional Parks
Network
Future...
1. Create a Shared Vision
2. Determine ‘Key Moves’
3. Identify Management Objectives
4. Identify ‘Who’s In’
5. Create Management Plan