Saved from the axe over 50 years ago, Herbert Forest is one of the last native forests of north-east Otago. In the 1960s, a small act of defiance saved what is likely the last remaining podocarp forest on the east coast of the South Island. When Ian Davies was a young forest ranger in North […]
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