It was a damp day and, after he had parked the van and set off down the forest track, even the noise of the Edinburgh-Glasgow motorway was muffled by thick, dark fir trees.
They look at a forest or a desert and they track rainfall patterns, or air and soil temperatures, what plants grow there and who eats what.
Many miles later, the road is but a faint single track in a thick bamboo forest.
Tasked with enforcing the law, the park guards often cover the forest on foot, gathering clues to track an evasive enemy.
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The Hollyford Track takes you through beech forest into the true Deep South of New Zealand and onto the West Coast beaches, remote and wild.
He was already looking into the forest, along the dark cut where the track lay.
The dramatic Hollyford Track starts in the midst of lowland forest, crossing mountain streams and passing pretty waterfalls as it follows the broad Hollyford River valley all the way to the sea at Martins Bay.
Under his guidance, around 500 forest officials patrol the park day and night, keeping track of the tigers.
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On 12 August, Mr Morton, who is backed by the Save Our Stow campaign, which is calling for greyhound racing to return to the track, delivered a pre-planning application for the stadium to Waltham Forest Council.
"The controls we had put in place were inadequate due to the unusually high rainfall, which resulted in surface water flowing onto a track that was being used by heavy machinery to extract timber from the forest, " added Mr Garson.
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