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… appropriate to each region. All the farms were later sold. Forest Service research In 1956 the government Forest Service established the Forest and Range Experimental Station in the Craigieburn …
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Part of story: Soil erosion and conservation
… umu tī to extract the kāuru (sugar). Te ngahere – the forest Numerous foods were gathered from the forest, including fruits and berries from hīnau, tawa and …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… habitats, including water trapped in the bracts of rain forest plants and the leaf litter of forest floors. There is no widely used common name for this …
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Part of story: Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans
… side of the Southern Alps broad valleys, with little forest, give relatively easy access to the high peaks. The … the range is much steeper and has a higher rainfall. Heavy forest, deeply gorged rivers and steep icefalls guard the …
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Part of story: Mountaineering
… these survive. It was a somewhat ironic gesture, as native forest had originally been felled to establish the town. … north-west of Greytown on the edge of the Tararua Forest Park, the spectacular Waiohine Gorge was carved out …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… provide shelter and act as a nursery for regenerating forest. They are an effective carbon store, holding around … of carbon per hectare as the shrublands develop into mature forest. Carbon accumulation by mānuka is similar to that of … and scrub were cleared for pasture or conversion to forestry. …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… and shelterbelts. Some plantations were established by farm foresters during the 1970s and 1980s, but, as trees … and Chamaecyparis nookatensis – is also grown in farm forests. Douglas fir Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… frog Hochstetter’s frog ( Leiopelma hochstetteri ) lives in forested ranges from Northland (south of Whangārei) to East … in the Coromandel Peninsula and the other in the Whareorino Forest, west of Te Kuiti. Archey’s frog is slim, with a …
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Part of story: Frogs
… managed by the Department of Lands. A parallel system of forest reserves and parks was also introduced by the Forest Service. In 1987 the government’s land management …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… northern range, pōhutukawa forms the main type of coastal forest. Inland, it grows as a minor part of kauri forest. Pōhutukawa can act as a pioneer plant, growing on …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… and timber for a developing city. Much of the native forest in the areas was lost, and town belts were often … including public recreation; conservation of native forest, wildlife and soil; and protection of the western …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces
… before flowering plants. In most temperate and tropical forests conifers have been superseded by flowering plants, but in New Zealand they dominate rainforests and some shrublands with infertile soils. Conifers … of some are quite different from their adult form. Wood Foresters often call conifers softwoods, and flowering trees …
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Part of story: Conifers
… thousands of small hills inland from Cape Egmont. Drowned forests At Waitara, and at Wai-iti beach near Urenui, stumps and logs from former forests are visible at low tide. The tree stumps at Wai-iti …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… to regular rainfall. Winters are relatively mild, and many forest trees are evergreen. Only a few insects in New …
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Part of story: Insects – overview
… Institute and offers cultural performances. Whakarewarewa Forest 2,280-hectare forest park, which started in 1899 as a nursery for …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… generally large areas (50,000–150,000 hectares). Most are forest parks. They include the Ruahine and Remutaka forest parks in the North Island’s central ranges, and the Richmond, Victoria and Lake Sumner forest parks in the low-altitude ranges of the northern …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… of timber and thousands of tonnes of kauri gum. Once the forests had gone, the area became a backwater. Wildlife The …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… by descendants of Māori–Dalmatian unions. Milling of native forest and flax made Kaitāia the Far North’s commercial … than Ōkaihau, 73 km south-east. The growth of farming and forestry, together with better highways and an air service … has been supported by the planting and harvesting of exotic forest on the Aupōuri Peninsula. Recent ventures include …
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Part of story: Northland places
… as tūrehu and pakepakehā, were fairy-like creatures of the forests and mountain tops. Although they had some human … they live? Patupaiarehe were generally found deep in the forests, or on mist-covered hilltops. In these isolated …
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Part of story: Patupaiarehe
… a wide range of functions, including recreation, farming, forestry, water management, heritage and conservation. … in 1989. The region has four other regional parks and two forests, all managed by the Greater Wellington Regional …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces