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… the northern zone was covered in mixed podocarp and beech forest, with subalpine vegetation on the highest peaks of … mostly tussock and subalpine grassland, with some areas of forest in higher-rainfall zones along the Kaikōura coast and in some inland valleys. The forests in much of the northern zone were cleared for …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… Lookalikes In most lowland to montane native forests, you will come across some small trees that look … māhoe ( M. macrophyllus ) is restricted to kauri forests from Auckland northwards. It looks similar to māhoe …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… improved, particularly the Routeburn and Dart–Rees tracks. Forest parks The Forest Service set up forest parks that combined …
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Part of story: Walking tracks
… was adopted. Sited towards the southern end of the heavily forested Forty Mile Bush, Eketāhuna was originally named Mellemskov (heart of the forest) by the Scandinavian settlers who founded the town in …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… the bush to establish Waimahoe station and the neighbouring forested foothills of the Tararua Range became his …
Type: Biography
… gorse a curse, but environmentalists like it because forest regenerates rapidly beneath it. Gorse succession at Hinewai At Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, native forest has regenerated through gorse. Gorse grew in grazed … in the gaps. Gorse cover changed to a young broadleaved forest after another 5 to 10 years – a much shorter period …
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Part of story: Forest succession and regeneration
… beech grow alongside rimu and other podocarps. There are forest birds and the world’s only breeding colony of … the eastern side, mountain beech grows. Mixed podocarp rainforest and rātā are found in the west. Above the bushline … areas of snow tussock and alpine meadows. As well as common forest birds, the park contains the endangered great spotted …
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Part of story: National parks
… made many attempts to halt this loss. The felling of forests and loss of land were a catastrophe for their traditional world view. The trees of the forest were a model for the tikanga or behaviour of a …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… Seddon to discuss government plans to legislate to conserve forests. He contributed a paper which attacked bitter …
Type: Biography
… problems in 1929, through work on deer damage in Otago forests; his knowledge was extended by contact with the … good relationship with the New Zealand Forest Service and foresters in general. In 1971, the year he became an …
Type: Biography
… the distribution of plants. In New Zealand, changes to the forests undoubtedly affected the distribution and abundance … years ago, as the climate warmed and multi-storeyed forest returned, these species vanished west of the main …
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Part of story: Extinctions
… in the 1950s as a centre for logging the Kāingaroa state forest. Roads and rail connect it to Kawerau, 70 km north, … links the range to Tamatea of the Tākitimu canoe. The still forested valleys and summits have important associations for …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… moa, the kererū plays a vital role in the regeneration of forests. A member of the fruit-pigeon subfamily, it is now … many offshore islands. They are most common in the lowland forests of Northland, the King Country, Nelson and the West …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… by the Department of Conservation to link Craigieburn Forest Park to Korowai–Torlesse Tussockland Park. Broken … town. The eastern parts of the park support native beech forests. The highest peak in the park, Mt Murchison (2,400 …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… just encampments for the seasonal harvesting of forest produce. Toatoa, Whitikau and Waiōweka contained fern … for snaring and hunting pigeons, kākā, weka and kiwi. These forested mountains were also places of refuge in times of …
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Part of story: Te Whakatōhea
… this people is met with by the Maori people in the forests, and they are heard conversing and calling out, as … night?’ or, ‘Who were heard conversing and shouting in the forest?’ The answer would be as follows: ‘They were not …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… and then began lobbying for the preservation of native forests in general. This led to the Scenery Preservation Act …
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Part of story: Interest groups
… his career. On 19 August 1896 Matthews was appointed chief forester, a new position created as a consequence of the … Matthews was selected by John McKenzie, commissioner of forests in the Seddon ministry, as a man capable of handling …
Type: Biography
… These open areas had been largely created earlier by forest fires – both accidental (from lightning strikes and … Polynesian and European settlers to clear the bush. After forest was burnt in the drier eastern regions, the absence … in 20 years. The success of these pastures encouraged more forest burning and land clearance to develop new grasslands. …
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Part of story: Pastures
… food, has led to widespread and rapid loss of wetlands and forests. Over 90% of New Zealand’s wetlands and two-thirds of its forests have been lost since the first human settlement, …
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Part of story: Land birds – overview