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    WAR the WILDINGS

    Jun 27, 2020 4 minutes
    By Matthew Cattin

    There’s an army advancing across New Zealand’s landscape that crosses rivers, lakes and mountain ranges with ease.

    Left unchallenged, the steady march will cover the country in unwanted exotic wilding conifers, superseding native forests and smothering open valleys, riverbeds and farmland.

    Currently covering more than 1.8 million hectares of land, it’s estimated that wilding conifers are spreading at a rate of five per cent a year, and will cover one-fifth of New Zealand within two decades without action.

    Rowan Sprague is on the front lines of the fight, having graduated from Lincoln University with a PhD in wilding conifers and slipped into her dream role as NZ Wilding Conifer Group coordinator.

    Aside from their alarming rate of reproduction, it’s the wide

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