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I've just returned from a Back Country Trust renovation project there that ended up unintentionally being a sort of rebuild. The original S81 New Zealand Forest Service structure had become very run down and rat infested.
Moisture had been entering in various spots including a poorly installed flue and the untreated rimu frame was rotting in numerous places. The plan was to reconstruct the hut from the floor up but once we'd stripped it down it was evident that the sub-floor and piles were too far gone for this to happen. The BCT is a community partnership that has been funding volunteers, and more recently paid workers using Jobs for Nature money, to
