Boffa Miskell worked with Southern Lakes Sanctuary, providing pro-bono landscape planning advice, assessment and preparation of a resource consent application for installation of the trapper's hut. 

We met with Southern Lakes Sanctuary and the landowner (Rees Valley Station) on site to identify a suitable location for the hut that met the Trust's objectives to minimise landscape effects, would not impede farm operations, and was also hidden from view by hikers within the conservation estate and 4WD users within the Rees Valley. 

Following this, Boffa Miskell undertook a landscape assessment, which supported a resource consent that was obtained swiftly from Council. 

The trapper's hut will be repurposed from an existing hut, previously located on Mt Liverpool in Mount Aspiring National Park. The hut will be used for storing equipment and providing overnight accommodation for crew undertaking pest management work in the Rees Valley.

The hut has been carefully sited to ensure that the landscape values that underpin the Rees Valley Outstanding Natural Landscape will remain intact, legible, and memorable. 

The resource consent will allow the hut to be heli-dropped to the site.