5. Acknowledgements
Many individuals from a wide variety of organisations provided helpful advice and useful data for this project. Many thanks to Department of Conservation, Environment Canterbury, NIWA, Landcare, and Fish and Game for providing advice and access to datasets they administer. Special thanks are due to: Norm Thornley and Deb Zanders (Department of Conservation Christchurch) for providing GIS data; Herb Familton (Department of Conservation Christchurch) for helpful discussions; Chris Wilmore (Department of Conservation Twizel) for discussions and local data; Ryan Elley (Environment Canterbury Christchurch) for GIS data and discussions; Jay Graybill, Bridgette Pringle and Mark Webb (Central South Island Fish and Game Council) for helpful discussions and numerous reports; Michelle Breach (Landcare) for access to National Vegetation Survey data; Brian Smith (NIWA) and John Ward (Canterbury Museum) for caddisfly data.
