These pages are Acrobat pdf files You may need to download a free Adobe Acrobat reader Bottle Lake is geographically well suited to offer recreational and educational opportunities to the people of Christchurch and tourists alike. At present the actual demand for forest recreation is growing and this can be expected to increase with future publicity, development of facilities and the improvement of road access and tracks into the forest park.
Forests are a source of a variety of values.
With changing perceptions of forests come changing conceptions of appropriate management. More recently the notion of multiple use has framed the basic approach to management in this country. In the past commodity values dominated forest management. However, growing public concerns of a host of other values such as clean air and water, biodiversity, wilderness and recreation has led to a fundamental change in the way that we view forests. Recreation, scenic and related amenity values in forests have now become a central aspect of the popularity of forests.