Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance provided by Matthew Hickman (New Zealand Ministry for the Environment), Chris Richmond (New Zealand Department of Conservation) and Gerard Horgan (New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry). Thank you for patience and guidance in finishing this report.
The evaluative framework developed in this paper is based in part on earlier work completed by Melissa Bright, Doug Young, Amanda Hamilton, Jeff Connor and Mike Young. We have extended this original work in a number of ways but the genesis of some of these ideas can be traced back to the work of Bright et al, 2002.
