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# Vandalism of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/vandalism-of-the-day/
- Published: 2022-10-13T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-13T02:40:16.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Culture, History, Hunting & Fishing, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> A former Department of Conservation ranger says plans to remove 55 backcountry huts in Te Urewera is **“a shocking abuse of departmental power”.**  
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> “What we’re witnessing is the biggest case of backcountry **vandalism** ever committed in New Zealand being promulgated by the government department charged with the role of preserving those same structures, without consultation,” conservationist Pete Shaw told the *Beacon*.  
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> \[…\] The annual plan, which is available to view on the Tuhoe authority’s website, states its intentions to “**remove the western influences and their imprint within Te Urewera”**   
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> \[…\] “They want to get all of them gone by Christmas,” Shaw said. “The whole lot. The reason for that is **they are expecting a reaction and they want to get them out before anyone can put a halt to the process.** The fact that they’ve already started has been kept really quiet.   
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> RNZ

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/hut-bfd-2022.jpg)

Image credit The BFD. Waiotukapiti Hut is a totara-slab hut built in the 1950s as a base for deer cullers.

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