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Cool, someone may as well get the stuff out of the ground!!!

i haven't been into skippers canyon for a while but i know the new owner of all the land between queenstown and wanaka (that's right, pretty much ALL the land) was going to do a little bit of wild pine tidying. last thing you want is your new block getting overgrown. funnily enough they don't seem to know or care so much for the area's history. That said there is so much history in there you could hardly turn a digget without messing something up.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/s...uilt-near-historic-sites

metal kiwi:

a hell of a lot of nz is foreign owned. start with downtown queenstown here. you can pretty much colour code the are block by block with foreign ownership by country. the irish, the sinaporeans, the japanese, etc.

the back blocks are no different. except it gets more obvious when the likes of lange puts a spotlight on it by slyly buying a vast chunk of it in progression.

i'm always doubtful on this as the people that live here get barred from the land forever. you could say it is private so keep off. yet this land has been pretty much waste land forever, bar some farming. now you get 1 guy in, who wants it to look pretty all for himself. unfortunately there always seems to be a financial motivation behind it all which will play out over subsequent years exposing the person's true character for all to see.

over this summer i have had the pleasure of conversing what fellow prospectors of all walks. its sad to hear what has changed over time. remote places where no harm was done are all off limits. under lock and key. farm management has been instructed to keep ALL folk out. no exceptions. OSH has not helped this cause either, more has provided an excuse.

Often i see historic structures being bulldozed by livestock in them. the historic places people can't save everything but it is looking like a joke. out of site out of mind. close the likes of the skippers and macetown roads and hopefully people will forget what is out there. a bit like a bad tui "yeah right" billboard.

glass earth in trouble with the authorities:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/s...or-work-at-historic-site

the damage was done quite a while ago it seems.

i found it odd they mention the reworking of the same old tailings. if these were reworked in the 90's i doubt they would be reworked again now. more likely they were making fresh roads etc to get to a fresh patch of tailings that had not been reworked.

while i understand that historic stuff needs protected it seems time and time again there is no problem until someone disturbs such. then its either a neighbour sticking there nose in or a case of the we want some money/stop progress/i'm a greenie type scenario where they simply don't like anyone doing anything to be frank about it.

it's a shame that such historic sites are not being documented by modern means before they all turn to dust anyway. there are so many little stone walls etc not everything can be protected. the trouble seems to be each thing is special to different people in varying ways. usually depending on how close to their home it is.

i see stuff that the average person probably never sees. i would love to document it all but today's problem is they only want to know about it if its been damaged.

another example would be all the stuff dredging brings up. it would be great to hand all the rusty relics in to some museum or something for display but i'm sure you would soon have the h p people on your case.

i see them as a bit like doc. too much to care for and too little money. and probably the same unrealistic government ideologies.

Would be better off putting the 2000 toward a decent dredge instead of buying some scrap metal.