TRACK CUTTING, TRAPLINE AND BAIT STATION NETWORK SETUP
Professional installation, servicing and maintenance of conservation infrastructure
Track Cutting & Maintenance
Establishing new tracks and maintaining existing for conservation operations across challenging terrain. Cut and cleared to your operational standards.
Trap and Bait Station Networks
Complete setup of your predator control network from initial planning and design through ongoing maintenance and servicing operations.
Remote Building
Hut construction and maintenance, boardwalks, fencing etc. Our multi skilled and flexible team enjoy a challenge so let us know the requirements for your next job
About Us
NORTH COUNTRY CONTRACTING
Delivering efficient, professional conservation services wherever needed across New Zealand through proven expertise and reliable project completion.
North Country Contractors is a specialized conservation team with proven expertise in track cutting, establishing bait station and trapline networks, servicing and maintaining traps and bait stations and remote building and track work. Over the last few years we have worked for DOC Kaitaia and Te Pewhairangi, Northland Regional Council, Puketi Forest Trust, Honeymoon Valley Landcare Trust and Native Forest Restoration Trust.
Our team is passionate about the work that we do and love the challenges of delivering high quality work in New Zealand's wild and remote locations. We are looking to expand our services and travel to new places around the country as required.
Testimonials
Professional Service Delivery
We have used Bernard and his team in Puketi Forest for a variety of tasks over the last few years. The work is of a very high quality, is conducted safely, and we are very happy with the result. From cutting new trap lines, to installing traps, maintaining those traps, and even assisting in the installation of new trappers huts in our forest, Bernard communicated effectively, was on time and on budget, and is calm under pressure. I'm happy to thoroughly recommend his services.
Toby Ricketts
Puketi Forest Trust
Recent Projects
PROJECT PORTFOLIO
Honeymoon Valley Landcare Trust
Trap Network Project Management – Honeymoon Valley
Overseeing implementation of Save the Kiwi funded Jobs for Nature project over five years. Install and management of 2481 traps for mustelids, possums and feral cats across 7000 hectares in steep and remote terrain.
DOC Te Pewhairangi
Puketi-Omahuta Track Clearing & Maintenance
Clearing tracks, setting up trapping network and ongoing maintenance on over 50km's of DOC traplines in Omahuta Forest. Tracks reopened using scrub bars and hand tools with adherence to Kauri hygiene protocols and GPS documentation.
DOC Te Pewhairangi
Omahuta Bait Station Expansion
Cut and marked new tracks and installed 350 bait stations across 12km of rugged forest terrain in Omahuta. Strategically placed for possum and rodent control as part of DOC's biodiversity protection efforts.
Puketi Forest Trust
Trapline Servicing – Flavell's, Opaopao & Te Harua
Regular servicing 6000 + traps and bait station operation across Puketi Forest. Mustelids, rats, possums and feral cat traps - DOC traps, SA2 traps, Victor rat and Trapinators serviced on a schedule to professional standards.
Puketi Forest Trust
Core Area Trapline Expansion
Extension of rat and possum control in three new core area blocks on a 50m x 100m grid. Tracks planned, flagged and cut and all infrastructure installed. Approx 60kms, 1200 traps and 300 bait stations across 600 hectares.
Digital Conservation Management
GPS Mapping & TrapNZ Integration
QGPS mapping of traplines and conservation infrastructure across multiple sites using QGIS and phone-based GPS tools. All records integrated into TrapNZ for real-time monitoring and DOC reporting.
Northland Regional Council
Puketi Forest Buffer Predator Control
Ongoing trap servicing and reporting under Northland Regional Council's biodiversity enhancement program. Monthly servicing across multiple private land blocks with vegetation clearance and hygiene protocols for integrated kiwi protection outcomes.
DOC Kaitaia
Te Araroa Trail – Track Clearance
16kms of Te Araroa trail maintained through Raetea Forest. Track reinstatement via scrub bar and chainsaw clearing with hazard removal and safety compliance.
Client Feedback
Diligent Conservation Advocate
In the time in both my previous employment at the Department Of Conservation and current capacity at the Northland Regional Council Bernard has proven to be a diligent and passionate advocate for the protection of nature in the Honeymoon Valley area and surrounds. Despite working in this challenging area, he has persevered and organised various forms of pest control over a large area and been happy to take on advise and upskill not only himself but other local trappers in this area of pest control. Bernard has proved himself in being a shrewd negotiator in getting pest control done and the many people I have talked to whole-heartedly think he is pleasant well learned comrade in arms.
Bernie Buhler
Northland Regional Council
Meet our team
OUR AWESOME TEAM
Bernard Coogan
The Chief
Will Pauwels
The Beast
Jonny Rodgers
The Brains
Miro Parsonson
The Hunter
Tor Steinemann
Turbo
