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It was mid-1961 when an advert appeared in all the national and regional newspapers for interested persons to apply for the position of Forest Ranger Trainee with the New Zealand Forest Service (NZFS).At that time, the NZFS managed and administered the entire publicly owned indigenous and exotic ...

When Dan Mouatt first got into logging it was just supposed to be for a few weeks on his brother’s crew. He was given a pair of Canadian climbing spikes and sent up a bunch of old crop pines to rope them up so they could be pulled back. “I struggled to walk for a few days after that,” he sa...