Arthurs Pass Management review

DoC's Poma Palmer has been beavering away for the past year on a review of the Arthurs Pass National Park management plan. The draft of this is supposed to be released around now.

I've been told Poma was likely to try sliding in some sneaky changes to make it easier to remove Ranger Biv. Well I don't know Poma so I've no idea if he will, and I've even less idea of why he would go to that sort of trouble. But people do say there are those in DoC who just don't like people in the mountains at all, unless they're restricted to a ticketed place on a tourist track and paying big bucks for the privilege.

I hope we manage to keep Arthurs Pass as the great natural environment adventure land that it's been for the past three generations. The Kiwi approach to free, unrestricted tramping is very much a part of our culture.

Whatever, here's a link to an item on DoC's  website outlining the review process.