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Readying to restore Arrowtown’s Slope Hill Reserve, thanks to an almost half-million-dollar grant from the Hilton Global Foundation are, from left, DoC’s David Butt and Emma Thompson, Mana Tāhuna’s John Hollebon, Cora Heister and Mike Rewi, Hilton Queenstown boss Chris Ehmann, and Whakatipu Reforestation Trust’s Jo Smith, Neill and Barbara Simpson and Karen O’Donahoo. PHOTO: DAN CHILDS / 222 PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIOS

Queenstown's Hilton Hotel has just super-charged the Whakatipu Reforestation Trust (WRT), bringing the dream of restoring a critical site to reality, 11 years earlier than expected.