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August 2016

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Sylvester Hut, Kahurangi National Park. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Six great examples from DOC’s modern hut building era When the Department of Conservation was formed in 1987, building new huts was pretty low on its list of priorities. The fledgling department already had a huge number of existing huts to maintain, not to mention the demands of trying to halt the decline of our […]
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