The Forest Service started on a programme of work to promote recreation in the park, including cutting new tracks and building huts.
[1] The proposal that created most concern was Coronado Global Resources' application to bulldoze a track to the Mount Arthur Tablelands.
These include hydro stations, grazing leases, sphagnum moss gathering areas, and mining operations or interests.
[1] As a result, remaining areas of North-west Nelson Forest Park are highly fragmented.
[6] The largest of those excluded parcels is the Taitapu Block, some 28,000 ha (69,000 acres) surrounding Lake Otuhie south of Mangarakau, as it was subject to a Waitangi claim.