IMPROVEMENT OF LOW ALTITUDE TUSSOCK COUNTRY IN CENTRAL OTAGO

Abstract

This paper describes the research work undertaken in the last two and a 'half years into the improvement of run country in Central Otago. The district covers 4,500 square miles of the Clutha and Taieri catchments stretching from the Lakes in the west and Miller's FIX and Middlemarch in the east. About twothirds of the area lies above 1,500 ft and is the run or pastoral country.