Heaphy Track
Sir, — The Forest Service seems so. enslaved to such mechanical toys as tractors and ditch-diggers that it cannot consider any more “primitive” methods. The whole Heaphy Track is not mud — most “improvement” is unnecessary. The blasting of solid rock in the Gouland Downs Scenic Reserve illustrates how a solid track cannot be left alone. If the service was to maintain the track instead of building a highway it could concentrate its labour and money in the patches that actually need improvement. Ordinary drainage ditches dug by hand and corduroy or gravel where appropriate would usually suffice. I emphasise that most of the “unimproved” track is quite satisfactory already. I am pleased, however, to read that the service “does not, and never has pushed for the Heaphy ” Would Mr Black lifce to go
further and say that the service would actually oppose such a road? — Yours, etc., D. J. ROUND. June 19, 1984.
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