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… of the morepork ( Ninox novaeseelandiae ) can be heard in forests and parks as it calls to other moreporks and claims … native owl. They are found in mainland New Zealand’s forests and on many offshore islands. They are less common …
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Part of story: Birds of prey
… Other houses in the area have fallen into the sea. Aorangi Forest Park Forest area in the Aorangi Range, between Martinborough and … including the Pūtangirua pā site. Vegetation includes forests of beech, hīnau, mahoe and mataī, with shrublands of …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… beyond Kapiti. There was already a group, the New Zealand Forestry League, promoting protection of native forests nationally, so he launched a complementary New …
Type: Biography
… there is relatively little natural lime present. Native forest species also have an acidifying effect. This acidity … which conserves organic matter the legacy of acid-forming forests, which built up organic matter in stable forms that …
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Part of story: Soils
… dependent on products derived from introduced grass. Forests and tussock were cut down and burned, and pasture … reliance on grass. It also encouraged the burning of forests in the North Island to sow new pasture. By 1921, 93% …
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Part of story: Economy and the environment
… to 700 years ago. The oldest shell middens contain bones of forest birds and fur seals. But within 200 years of human … fur seals had disappeared from northern sites and fewer forest birds were eaten at coastal sites. Advancing dunes … inland. One trigger was probably Māori clearance of coastal forest, which removed shelter and exposed the soil to wind …
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Part of story: Coastal shoreline
… roads or caught in other easily accessible places. In the forests, possum numbers continued to grow. Spread of possums … the animals could ‘with advantage be liberated in all forest districts except where the forest is fringed by …
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Part of story: Possums
… Grasses favour open areas. Very few grow under a closed forest. A few grow on sand dunes or coastal cliffs, but they … or drier than those which supported shrubland, woodland or forest. Grasslands reached their greatest extent in the … 19th century, after Māori fires had burned much of the forest in the drier regions, and before Europeans settled in …
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Part of story: Grasslands
… in Central Hawke’s Bay and in the north towards Wairoa. Forest-covered southern Hawke’s Bay was largely unsettled by … speculators. Settling the Seventy Mile Bush The heavily forested inland area in southern Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa, …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… tatu (stumble). Below the gorge the river passed through forested country to just beyond Ōpiki. Here it joined with …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… College in 1922; he graduated PhD in 1928. A school of forestry was established at Auckland University College in … lecturer in applied zoology and he taught at the school of forestry. He also became honorary zoologist to the New …
Type: Biography
… Rimu and kahikatea were once widespread in lowland forest, but both have been extensively milled for their … and its crown usually emerges above the main canopy of forest trees. On well-drained fertile sites, it grows to 50 … no shortage of suitable trunks to choose from. Kahikatea forests were felled to provide valuable land for dairy …
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Part of story: Conifers
… volcanic formations, magnificent landscapes, noble forests, and picturesque lakes’. 1 Guidebooks and … and human associations. Felling the bush New Zealand’s forests were being felled for timber, and to clear land for …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… line was built to the town in 1917. In March 1918, massive forest fires destroyed pasture, stock, sawmills and … once a sawmilling centre, but now a reserve of native forest, including the Rotokura Ecological Area, where native …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… coast. Soils were modified and stone walls were made. Forest was cleared so land could be cultivated. In the South … the Wairarapa was cleared of bush. In the South Island, the forest was cleared in Whakatū (Nelson), and from Wairau down …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… This rare mix of grassland, wetland, shrubland, and lowland forest was once typical of the Wairarapa. On the wetland edge, kahikatea forest changes to tītoki and mataī; tōtara grows on the …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… extraordinary number for a coolish, temperate climate. The forest understorey, moss and litter habitat has over 1,400 … Nesting in a burrow, it is much like a badger. Moa fed in forests and grasslands like goats, deer and cattle. They …
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Part of story: Evolution of plants and animals
… While pastoral farming is the Wairarapa’s main industry, forestry, fishing and horticulture are important and growing players in the economy. Forestry Wairarapa (including the whole Tararua district) … supply building timber. From the 1960s many farmers planted forests. Institutional investment doubled plantings in the …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… horticulture Rotorua–Taupō region – for planning farms and forestry Fruit-growing areas of Central Otago Manawatū sand … erosion In the 1970s there was a plan to clear-fell beech forest on the West Coast and plant pine trees. Research by …
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Part of story: Soil investigation
… disproportionately over-represented in government-owned forests, railways, road works, electricity networks and the … state-owned companies. Because a number of Crown lands with forests were subject to Treaty of Waitangi claims, the … set up in 1990. When the ownership of the land on which the forests stood was resolved, assets would be returned to iwi. …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy