Voting wilderness

May 2014

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Plans to raise Lake Manapouri, pictured from Mt Titroa, created a public outcry and ousted the government of the day
Funding for the conservation estate is inadequate, argues Mick Abbott, which is why he suggests a vote for wilderness at the coming national election Edward Abbey was a notoriously cranky writer of all things wilderness in North America. He was hard living, idealistic and had a rabid loathing of how city-based bureaucrats and politicians ran […]

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