Wild animal control huts: a national heritage identification study
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.
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
Publication information
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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