Southland Branch - New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
Welcome.
Good News! Our clubrooms at Longbush has been reroofed thanks to Community Trust of Southland for their financial assistance.
LATEST NEWS FROM OUR RAT TRAPPING PROGRAM. updated 11March 2012
For the last six years members have been undertaking a rat control program at Mason Bay Stewart Island. Between September - Dec 2011 6 parties involving 26 members spent man 156 days checking 300 traps over 14 km of lines. A 342 rats were killed. Signiticantly high numbers were killed by the first two parties (174 & 87) but the last party killed only 7 which is a good sign. We would only be completely successful if there were no rats left to kill. A full report will be posted shortly and the 2010 report can be seen online.
WAPITI IN FIORDLAND (Photo Roy Sloan)