Story: Land ownership
Mt Peel station in South Canterbury is a property that has successfully gone through tenure review, where farmers could gain freehold to leased land in return for giving up some land for conservation. The division between the newly acquired freehold land and the conservation estate is marked by the bulldozed tracks. The bush on the left remains Department of Conservation reserve, while the cleared land on the right will continue to be farmed in private ownership.
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Photograph by Jock Phillips
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