Go West... Western Sector Regional Parks
18-PRO-0096 Go west... Western sector regional parks Waitākere Ranges Regional Park (Arataki, Huia, Cascade Kauri and Piha depots) • Muriwai Regional Park • Te Rau Puriri Regional Park Western parks at a glance... Being a student ranger in the west Most Aucklanders know the Waitākere Ranges, but not everyone Our students will take part in a five-day induction and will be knows that more than 16,500 hectares of the ranges is regional mentored by a ranger ‘buddy’ from the depot or location where they parkland with 240km of walking and tramping tracks. From the are based. Students will be assigned to Arataki but will be working gateway to the ranges, the Arataki Visitor Centre, over 155,000 across the western regional parks. One student will also be assigned people each year learn about the history of the ranges and get to the Arataki Visitor Centre but will also work in the field with other valuable advice on how to explore the parkland. students. The park has four lodges and four bookable baches, a scientific reserve You will meet the sector student liaison rangers and interact with at Whatipū, historic buildings, monuments and sites, including the duty rangers on a daily basis for work programmes and essential tasks. site of New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster in 1869 when 189 people perished in the wreck of the Orpheus. Tasks will range from visitor patrols, managing volunteer groups, nursery work, track maintenance, weed and pest control to farm work, Around 10,000 school kids take part in education programmes at amenity garden maintenance, sign and barrier maintenance, fencing Arataki each year.
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