Spikes Planted On Urewera Tramping And Mountainbike Track

kiwi_zg · *by **kiwi_zg** on Mon 30/Aug/10 11:51am*

John Sutton, Conservation Department Rangitaiki area manager, said the improvised road spikes were found buried on a tramping and mountainbike track near the Okahu Valley access road, which has become the centre of a land rights protest in Te Urewera National Park.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4073449/Spikes-planted-on-Urewera-track

snr_merv · *by **snr_merv** on Mon 30/Aug/10 12:40pm*

That sucks. What do trampers and riders have to do with ownership of the land? Do they really want to seal it off so no-one can enjoy it?

pissface · *by **pissface** on Mon 30/Aug/10 1:49pm*

it also says the spikes are nothing to do with the protestors.

Trail · *by **Trail** on Mon 30/Aug/10 2:10pm*

and that the spikes are on an access road, not on the tramping/biking track like the title of this thread suggests.

kiwi_zg · *by **kiwi_zg** on Mon 30/Aug/10 2:21pm*

improvised road spikes were found buried on a tramping and mountainbike track near the Okahu Valley access road

Trail · *by **Trail** on Mon 30/Aug/10 2:36pm*

my bad... did not read that properly

Oli · *by **Oli** on Mon 30/Aug/10 3:56pm*

pissface wrote:it also says the spikes are nothing to do with the protestors.

I have it on good local authority that they are lying when they say that. And also that "protestors" is actually a euphemism for "protectors of pot patches".

pissface · *by **pissface** on Mon 30/Aug/10 4:14pm*

Oli wrote:
pissface wrote:it also says the spikes are nothing to do with the protestors.
I have it on good local authority that they are lying when they say that. And also that "protestors" is actually a euphemism for "protectors of pot patches".

and actually the article says just that they deny that they are associated with the spikes

Oli · *by **Oli** on Mon 30/Aug/10 7:52pm*

foesfly66 · *by **foesfly66** on Mon 30/Aug/10 8:48pm*

So , the issues are mounting, 1080, recreational user access, "koha"s from commercial operators, is it all of these, or one. I'll be interested to see what happens from the meeting.

Cattle rustlers!! Is this a real issue in NZ ? Farmers please respond.

foesfly66 · *by **foesfly66** on Mon 30/Aug/10 8:48pm*

So , the issues are mounting, 1080, recreational user access, "koha"s from commercial operators, is it all of these, or one. I'll be interested to see what happens from the meeting.

Cattle rustlers!! Is this a real issue in NZ ? Farmers please respond.

znomit · *by **znomit** on Mon 30/Aug/10 8:56pm*

foesfly66 wrote:Cattle rustlers!! Is this a real issue in NZ ?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/lo ... p-rustling

Paul_Bags · *by **Paul_Bags** on Tue 31/Aug/10 8:08am*

foesfly66 wrote:So , the issues are mounting, 1080, recreational user access, "koha"s from commercial operators, is it all of these, or one. I'll be interested to see what happens from the meeting.

Cattle rustlers!! Is this a real issue in NZ ? Farmers please respond.

Perhaps the protestors know this because they were the ones out for a midnight snack?