Published:

April 2007. Revised 2011.

DOC manages a large number of backcountry huts, a great many of which were built as part of wild animal control operations by the New Zealand Forest Service and, to a lesser extent, by its predecessor, the Deer Division of the Department of Internal Affairs and the Wildlife Service.

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Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• • Commission details
  • Purpose
  • Philosophical basis
  • Assessing significance
• Part 1: A General History
• • The genie out of the bottle
  • Late releases and early culling
  • Government culling under Internal Affairs
  • The first hut building programme
  • New Zealand Forest Service takes over
  • Dip Flat
  • Helicopter hunting and the demise of the Government hunter
  • Recreation
  • The mythology of the deer culler
• Part 2: The heritage value of wild animal control huts
• • Historical
  • Physical
  • Social/cultural
• Part 3: Hut building 1946-1985
• • Internal Affairs 1946-1956
  • New Zealand Forest Service 1956-1985
• Part 4: Wild Animal Control Huts - a template for assessment
• • Introduction
  • Criteria
• Part 5: Further work
• • Further sources of information
• Part 6: Sources
• • Primary
  • Secondary
• Appendix 1: Candidates for historic status
• Appendix 2: Philosophical basis
• Appendix 3: NZFS Hut plans

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ISBN 978-0-478-14190-0 online

This report was prepared for publication by Heritage Appreciation Unit, Department of Conservation, Wellington.

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