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… of Crown lands, chief surveyor and conservator of state forests for the Westland district. In addition to his … Among its recommendations were the classification of all forests with a protective role as climatic reserves, the …
Type: Biography
… represented 1,700 builders, all with trade qualifications. Forestry The New Zealand Forest Owners’ Association (FOA) … owned or managed more than 80% of the country’s plantation forests. Farm Forestry Association members owned or managed …
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Part of story: Employer and business organisations
… types, but Podzols are restricted mainly to native forest. All four types occur mainly on quartz-rich parent … New Zealand’s extensive conifer–broadleaf, beech and kauri forests, they concluded that the land was richly fertile. …
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Part of story: Soils
… Most uplands are clad in mountain beech or silver beech forest. Elsewhere there is diverse conifer–broadleaf forest of cedar, tōtara, toatoa, five finger, olearia and … slopes and valley basins were generally covered by beech forest, predominantly black beech, red beech and mountain …
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Part of story: Ecoregions
… which separates the Amuri and Cheviot basins. Balmoral Forest One of Canterbury’s largest exotic forests, this was planted on poor land on the north bank of …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… largest fern family in New Zealand. They thrive in humid forests – their translucent fronds, just one or two cells … fern or raurenga ( Cardiomanes reniforme ), grow on the forest floor, while others are epiphytic on the trunks of …
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Part of story: Ferns and lycophytes
… St James Walkway is a popular five-day, 66-km walk through forested and farming mountain country east of the Lewis Pass … 10 thermal pools and other facilities. The Hanmer State Forest Park protects early plantings of exotic trees. Lake …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canterbury places
… when they were dug up were eaten, and the birds in the forest were fat. This coincided with the rise of Matariki in … in the region, particularly coastal land, was cleared of forest. Coastal strips were cleared from Whanganui through …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… poetry and tradition, compared with their more widespread forest relatives, kākā ( Nestor meridionalis ). Appearance … travel down to sea level. They live in high-altitude beech forest and open subalpine herbfields, up into snow country. … logs or tree roots, close to the upper limit of beech forest. The female lays up to four white eggs any time …
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Part of story: Birds of mountains and open country
… the lakes district. The lake is graced by Matawhaura, a forest-covered mountain at its eastern end. Rotoiti is … underground outflow. The area around the lake is farmed and forested. There are just two areas of holiday houses, on the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… such as the roof of a cave or an overhanging bank in the forest. Their lights resemble a star-filled night sky. Māori … snares. Caves and old mining tunnels are ideal. In the forest glow-worm snares are commonest on moist banks beside …
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Part of story: Glow-worms
… the kiore survived. Kiore were commonly caught in broadleaf forest, especially in autumn. The only other food sources … the native pigeon, bellbird and tūī, found in broadleaf forest. Rails lived in bog shrublands and at the forest edge. Ducks were plentiful in large wetland areas and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… V). North Island farmers often had to contend with thick forest, known as bush, which had to be cleared. A vast … the word ‘bush’ – including bushman (a logger of native forest) and bush shirt (a woollen shirt, often worn by forest workers). In some areas, fields were called burns – a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural language
… mountain overshadowed by loftier peaks in the Hautere forest. Mauao’s love for the beautiful mountain Pūwhenua was … In anguish he cried out to the fairy-like creatures of the forest to drag him into the ocean, so that his pain might be … the first rays of dawn sent the fairies fleeing to the forest for safety, because for these near-immortal creatures …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… time Palmerston (North) had been surveyed, but a swathe of forest stood between it and the port of Foxton. The … were eminently suitable for the job of clearing the forest. …
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Part of story: Scandinavians
… In 1878 Germantown had 53 residents, but after a bad forest fire that year, most settlers moved to Christchurch. … supposed to open up thick bush-covered land for farming. Forest workers were recruited from Pomerania in northern …
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Part of story: Germans
… areas, which were originally covered in kauri-dominated forest, so-called gumland soils developed. These were mined … Superphosphate is needed on gumland soils used for forestry, and potassium fertiliser is used on podzolised …
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Part of story: Soils and regional land use
… Many plants are adapted to just one phase of a forest succession. They suit either the first (pioneer) phase, or the mature forest phase, or somewhere in between. As a succession …
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Part of story: Forest succession and regeneration
… most lowland rivers were bordered by dense native forest with many ferns, mosses, liverworts and fungi. The forested river banks were home to birds, lizards, slugs, …
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Part of story: Rivers
… their effect on native vegetation became obvious. In forests, almost all vegetation within 1–1.3 metres of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Goats and goat farming