Letter of the month
PIRONGIA PROOF OF 1080 EFFECTIVENESS
In regard to Kevin Hague’s request for trampers to speak up on the benefits of 1080 (‘Trampers need to call time on 1080 myth’, August 2019), a friend and I started off-road running on Mt Pirongia in 1997.
We have run the same track throughout the year and started at the same time in the early evening – a time of day when one would expect to hear the evening chorus of birds. But the reality was that the forest was silent, except for the hissing and growling of possums which were a common sight bounding off the trail and
