It’s all hands on deck as DOC employs the help of volunteers to tackle wilding trees in the Mackenzie, by Fraser Crichton Just outside Twizel, on SH8, there’s a road sign that reads ‘Twizel Town of Trees’. I pass it now with a wry smile. Wilding trees, self-sowing pine trees in particular, are a notorious […]
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