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 ErosionWillow Planting

Recreation:the development of a Park

FishingCampingWalkingEducationInteractionCommunicationHeritageCultureResearch

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