Photo: Environment Southland/SuppliedSouthland pest control group fears 18 years of work could be in jeopardy amid difficult conditions. Since 2006, Mid Dome Wilding Trees Charitable Trust has worked to cull rogue pines from over 40,000 ha of land east of the Mataura River. Trust chairperson Ali Ballantine told Environment Southland on Friday that her group was beginning to feel the pinch. The trust believed the council had historic responsibility for the issue due to the Catchment Board instigating plantings at Mid Dome between the 1960s and 1980s. The trust's review of the Mid Dome Wilding Tree Strategy last year showed approximately $20 million had been spent to date.
