A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Spring is not far away now in many areas despite a very challenging winter, and depending on your altitude. The very first shoots of Mountain tutu are just starting to appear on the warmest claypans in the Kaweka Forest Park, which means the Sika will be hoovering them up very soon.

KAWEKA 1080

While we were in the Kawekas doing a kiwi nest raid on Sunday, Ospri finally did the 1080 drop in the Eastern Kawekas that has been scheduled since July. The Kaweka Liaison Group agreed to this drop as a buffer zone along the Park boundary - not because there is any TB in the Park, but to stop the TB outbreak on Hawkes Bay farmland getting into the possums in the Park.

Yes, they all said