Draft Conservation Management Strategy Submission Form

Submission Form Draft Conservation Management Strategy

Once you have completed this form Send by post to: CMS Submissions, Department of Conservation, Private Bag 3072, Hamilton 3240 Or email to: [email protected]

Submissions must be received no later than 4.30pm, Friday 15 March 2013 Anyone may make a submission, either as an individual or on behalf of an organisation. Please ensure all sections of this form are completed. You may either use this form or prepare your own but if preparing your own please use the same headings as used in this form. A word version of this form is available on the Department’s website: www.doc.govt.nz/cms

Submission on: Northland / Auckland / Waikato CMS (please use a separate submission form for each CMS and circle the CMS you are commenting on)

Submitter details:

Peter D Vahry Name of submitter or contact person: Organisation name: Auckland Four Wheel Drive Club Inc. (if on behalf of an organisation) Postal address: PO Box 6712 Wellesley St Auckland 1142

Telephone number: 027 4310923 (the best number to contact you on) [email protected] Email:

x I wish to be heard in support of my submission (this means you can speak at the hearing) I do not wish to be heard in support of my submission (tick one box)

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Your submission is submitted as part of a public process and once received by the Department it is subject to the provisions of the Privacy Act 1993 and the Official Information Act 1981. The Department may post your submission on its website and also make it available to departmental staff; any consultant used; the relevant Conservation Board and the New Zealand Conservation Authority. Your submission may be made available to any member of the public following a request made under the Official Information Act 1981. Submission:1

Section: Submission: Decision sought: Identify the section, Explain the nature of your submission State clearly the decision sought or objective, outcome, stating whether you support or oppose changes you would like to the see. policy, milestone, the approach in the CMS. Please Please be as precise as possible. For table or map that provide brief reasons. example: your submission - if supporting: ‘retain Policy X’ relates to. - if opposing: ‘delete Policy X’ - if seeking changes ‘reword Policy X to read (give suggested wording) 2.1.2 Support ; Advocate for responsible Such responsible land based rural land-based rural activities that do not activities would include organised detrimentally affect the natural 4WD club activities environments and ecosystems of Parengarenga Harbour etc.

2.2.5 Oppose; the language of this …b) The section (a) talks of working with advocating for bylaws to limit speed and some sections of the community while restrict access and voluntary codes of (b) talks of restricting and penalising. practice for responsible beach use via Reword to recognise working with all district plans… is as wrong as the parties equally philosophy.

2.8.5 Oppose; Restrict vehicle access to Reword; as dunes are not fragile in clearly identified locations on public nature but are dynamic landforms conservation lands to minimise adverse altered by wind. Considering the impacts on fragile dunes, historic and dune and vegetation modification in archaeological sites, the area of the Pouto Lighthouse with heavy machinery, the adverse impacts of occasional public vehicles are insignificant. Work with vehicle groups like 4WD clubs to clearly identify areas where travel is to be avoided. 2.8.6 Work with tangata whenua, councils, The groups identified all have an other agencies and the community to interest in using vehicles on west promote initiatives that are designed to coast beaches, as a major value is reduce the impacts of vehicles on west the expanses of beaches and the coast beaches. ability to access different parts of the coast. 4WD Clubs are community and would anticipate being involved.

1 Further information can be appended to your submission. If you are sending this submission electronically we accept the following formats – Microsoft Word, Text, PDF and JPG. The file must not be more than 9MB. 2.9.12 Oppose; Through interagency Unnecessary. The areas involved will collaboration and application of the restrict practical public access to Northland Reserve Bylaws 2007, exclude large sections of the coast. recreational vehicle use on dunelands and advocate for the space known as the Dunes are naturally mobile and ‘foreshore road’ (beach area between the control attempts by ‘restoration’ high- and low-tide marks) to be for planting only trap sand to try to pedestrians and wildlife, especially prevent its transfer to inland areas shorebirds. with economic values to local authorities. Delete; Requests for off-road use and Formed or unformed legal roads do vehicle use on unformed paper roads on not fall within the jurisdiction of the public conservation land are often Department. received; however, in most cases, this is incompatible with the use or classification of the area and its natural and historic values.

Part Three The Northland CMS is largely The CMS is a chance to be bold and negative in respect of vehicle use on recognise that vehicles are the means Vehicles public lands, which is unfortunate that people use to get to Northland given that NZ has an ageing and a large proportion of the ‘outdoor population and laws to avoid adventures’ marketed in that region discrimination for disabilities. 4WD are vehicle linked. vehicles in particular can allow Making better provision for private practical access and participation in vehicle exploring would certainly our outdoors. increase visitor numbers, with low overheads to the Department. Glossary Road Reword to make sense Means: (a) a road that is formed and maintained (a) a road that is formed and maintained for public vehicle use; for vehicle use by the public;

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