News from FMC
The South Island's West Coast is home to a highly significant karst region. Features of the West Coast karst include: the largest area of unmodified lowland karst in New Zealand; [...]
FMC is stoked to see WorkSafe’s new guidance about health & safety law and recreational access. This vexed issue has been needlessly causing concerned landowners to block access because they [...]
The Department of Conservation has announced this morning that the process of amending the West Coast Conservation Management Strategy (CMS) is being halted, and that recent changes to the Paparoa [...]
In April 2019 the Treasury launched a public consultation on the reform of the Overseas Investment (OI) Act 2005. The complete consultation document can be downloaded from our Archives. FMC's [...]
The election for the position of FMC Vice-President closed at 5pm on 17 May 2019. Congratulations to Tania Seward on being elected FMC Vice-President for the year 2019-2020. Tania is [...]
If you don’t enter into our FMC photo competition because you don’t think your shots are good enough, we want to help you change that. We have another online introductory [...]
Pioneer Energy Ltd has recently started the construction of a road and hydro scheme in the Matiri Valley, Tasman Region. Since the resource consent and concession for the hydro development [...]
During FMC's Outdoor Community campaign support to Ski Touring, we noticed some friction between members of the back country touring community and some ski area operators. The friction appeared to [...]
The New Zealand high country is a jigsaw of public conservation land, crown land and freehold land. As to 2019, 1.2 million ha crown land are leased to 171 pastoral lease [...]
On the 3rd of July, 1919, Mr W.H. Field, MP for Otaki and Mr F.W Vossellor "called a meeting of tramp enthusiasts...to consider the formation of a Tararua Club in [...]
