I have just heard with sadness that Bob Collins has died at the age of 84.
He was a friend and mentor of the 1962 intake of Ranger Trainees. Actually he was he was a lecturer and teacher as well as being a guide to us. We were 29 young bucks, and I suppose some of us were hard to handle - but he did a great job!
Later Bob would come to Herbert Forest to teach me about work study - the science of quantifying work output and creating bonus schemes to encourage higher production by increasing the hourly rate in relation to work output.
I enjoyed those times and his guidance about running a small forest. Manay of his teachings remain with me.
Bob you've earned a spell, peace to you.
About Me
- Footsteps NZ-TZ
- I trained as a Forest Ranger and have spent a lifetime growing/harvesting trees in sustainable plantation forests. I have also been involved in the protection of indigenous forest, though are not totally against sustainable utilization. I have also worked as a nurseryman/manager, encouraging the planting of trees as a way to improve the planet, conserve soils and regulate rainfall. My life-changing experience was to use my skills in order to help improve the living environment of some village people in Tanzania and do some other projects such as rainwater harvesting and school building. I worked there for some seven years. There were some 28 primary and 7 secondary schools involved with the projects - all of them in the poorer rural areas surrounding the base of Mt Meru, Tanzania. I call the first NGO I worked for Hifadhi, meaning Conservation. The bulk of my time was with DME.
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