Stewardship land continues to divide

Stewardship land continues to divide
The Denniston Incline, West Coast. (Image: Getty)
Ian Llewellyn
Farming and mining interests have welcomed decisions on stewardship land on the West Coast, but environmental groups are taking a more sceptical stance.The protracted and controversial process covers the classification of more than 600,000 hectares of stewardship land, mainly given into the management of the Department of Conservation when it was set up in 1987.The reclassification has been mired in controversy and political and bureaucratic inertia for more than 30 years, with various attempts at classification making little progress.Commercia...

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