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New links in Northland

  • 05 Sep 2008

[Northland Park Care Team]
Photo: Fiona Mackenzie

Shane Jessen (holding chainsaw), Darren Paul and Mark Edwards, part of the Northland Park Care team putting in the new track between Matapouri and Ngunguru



A Northland Park Care team has begun bush clearance on an eight-kilometre track from Matapouri to Ngunguru as part of Te Araroa's Northland route. The work was delayed because of heavy rain in the north, but is now expected to complete within two weeks. Northland Park Care is a professional team contracting to Te Araroa Trust.



On 12 November an eight-person Conservation Volunteers of New Zealand team, headed up by Te Araroa's construction manager, Noel Sandford, will start work on another section - the Morepork-Onekainga-Whananaki Estuary track. The new ten-kilometre track is planned to head south from Kaiikanui Road along an existing but little-used dead-end DoC track, to private land where landholders the Waetford, Harman, and Carson families have allowed a route through to Whananki Estuary and the settlement there.



The new tracks were organised by Te Araroa's project manager in the north, Fiona Mackenzie, and funded by the ASB Community Trust.




DOC Ranger Scott Theobald
Photo: Fiona Mackenzie

Scott Theobald, a DoC Ranger, on the existing Morepork Track from Kaiikanui Road to Hansen's Hill



Poor Knights
Photo: Fiona Mackenzie

The Poor Knights, - view taken from the junction of DoC estate with the 6km stretch of privately owned land. The track across the estate will be upgraded, and the track across the private land constructed to achieve the 10-kilometre Kaiikanui Road to Whananaki link.
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