In six years a privately-owned highway could be built through this valley in Fiordland National Park. Are you ok with that?

May 2014

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Would a road from Haast to Hollyford be a financial masterpiece bringing the tourist dollar to West Coast and Southland, or would it be a wiggly line of wilderness destruction that would leave rate payers picking up the pieces and trampers rueing what they once had? Matthew Pike investigates Fiordland seems to be the place […]

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