26km of Matemateaonga Track re-cut

January 2024

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January 2024

Heavy duty track clearing has made the Matemateaonga Track passable again
How would you fancy clearing 26km of Whanganui’s Matemateaonga Track? It’s what Derrick Field and a team of volunteers did as 2023 drew to an end. Field had worked in the area with the NZ Forest Service for five years in the late 1960s when the Matemateaonga Track and others in the Waitōtara Forest first […]

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