Volunteer to check a trapline and walk big distances while protecting native wildlife. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

Another walk in the woods

November 2022

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An unforeseen benefit of walking the same trapline over and again is that it allows you to truly know a place.

It first I felt a bit miffed. In 2016 when I volunteered to check a trapline in the kiwi area of Remutaka Forest Park, I was offered an easy route – one that followed well-known and well-used tracks. ‘Is that all they think I’m capable of?’ I thought. I used to bash through all sorts […]
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