Area of Westland National Park Increased
“T?IGHT thousand acres of magnificent scenery” on the southern side of the Copland Range in the Southern Alps has been made part of Westland National Park, the Minister of Lands and Forests, Mr Duncan Maclntyre, announced recently when opening a new visitors’ centre for the Westland National Park Board at Fox Glacier township. The new building includes a hall, a natural history museum, and garages for a fire tender and ambulance.
Two blocks of land —8,072 acres of Karangarua State Forest and 523 acres of scenic reserve and Crown land —had been added to the park, Mr Maclntyre said. The area of the park is now 218,852 acres, and its western boundary extends to the main road by the Karangarua River and to the ridge of the Copland Range. The whole of the Copland Track, which leaves the main highway 16 miles south of Fox Glacier township and provides access to Copland Pass and Mount Cook National Park, is now within the park.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 171, 1 February 1969, Page 22
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