Wairarapa Key Native Ecosystem Management Areas - Greater ...
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Pikes Lagoon<br />
44. Executive summary<br />
This is a further updated report for Pikes Lagoon for the year 2007/08. It is a<br />
follow on report from the report prepared in 2006/07.<br />
45. Operational area<br />
The Pikes Lagoon<br />
predator control<br />
operational area<br />
remains the same<br />
at approximately<br />
152 hectares. This<br />
includes all of the<br />
wetlands but<br />
includes the flat<br />
fertile land from<br />
the terrace to the<br />
margins of the<br />
Ruamahanga<br />
River. Ownership<br />
remains<br />
unchanged with<br />
the wetlands owned jointly by Bruce McKenzie and John McKinstry and the<br />
farmed dairy runoff owned by Alan Renal.<br />
Some of the original predator control sites were removed and new sites<br />
established this past year as the property belonging to Alan has undergone a<br />
major transformation with areas of crack willow removed and hollows filled in<br />
to accommodate a central pivot irrigator that is now in place.<br />
46. Recommendations<br />
• Continue to undertake long term integrated predator control at Pikes<br />
Lagoon with site checks to be carried out monthly or as often as time<br />
permits.<br />
• Where possible through the Wetlands Incentive Scheme, continue to offer<br />
support and advice with any future wetland enhancement projects.<br />
47. Objectives<br />
• To maintain possum populations at less than 5% RTC.<br />
• To reduce predator populations to low levels therefore improving the<br />
biodiversity values of Pikes Lagoon and its surrounding habitat.<br />
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