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… In the 19th century some people wanted to preserve native forest for its scenic and recreational value. Their … in outdoor recreation and began to appreciate New Zealand’s forests. There was growing support for scenic reserves and …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… Island – except Central Otago and the Mackenzie Basin – was forested. Throughout the country there were conifer–broadleaf forests. The most common trees within them were kauri, rimu, …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… Foreign investment When government forests were sold between 1990 and 1996, about 10% passed to …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… Beech forests are used for recreation, commercial hunting, … sustainable, high-quality timber resource. Since then, foresters have proposed a number of management schemes, but …
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Part of story: Southern beech forest
… also change the overall structure and composition of native forests. Although the amount they consume seems astonishing, …
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Part of story: Possums
… Native forests In the 19th century, New Zealand’s extensive native … Service in 1949) was staffed by professionally trained foresters from overseas. Its first director, Canadian Leon … Forestry in the 1800s …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… proposed large-scale milling of South Island lowland beech forest, to provide timber for one or more pulp mills. Half … the only New Zealand environmental group concerned with forests was the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… kauri-depleted soils. The amount of regenerating secondary forest and scrubland containing kauri (estimated at 60,000 … I vowed never to fell another healthy tree.’ 1 Although foresters continued to manage regenerating stands for …
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Part of story: Kauri forest
… around 1250–1300 CE, the Whanganui region was covered by forest, except for small areas of red tussock and scrub in … and the Kaweka and Ruahine ranges. Māori impact on forests By 1840, Māori had cleared the forests by fire in …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… Native Bird Protection Society (later to become the Royal Forest and Bird Society of New Zealand) has consistently … advocated conservation issues, especially in relation to forested land. Development of forestry The 1913 Royal … on Forestry stuck to the traditional settler view that forests should be cleared for farmland, although it wanted …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… has a temperate climate, its lowland conifer–broadleaf forests have the layered structure of subtropical rainforests, with many small trees and shrubs growing below the …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… kaitiakitanga. Mana: spiritual power The mana (power) of a forest, for example, is expressed in its birds, trees and … blossoms and fruit, and birds arriving to feed, show the forest’s mana. Terms such as matomato (growing vigorously) … birds to arrive and so on. In traditional kaitiakitanga, forests were strictly managed. Tohunga (priests) carried out …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… Much of the King Country was covered by conifer–broadleaf forests prior to European settlement in the late 19th …
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Part of story: King Country region
… Kāingaroa Forest Exotic forest occupying a large part of the Kāingaroa … to its residents by the Crown in 1987, after the state’s forests were privatised. In 2013 the population was only … were many empty sections and derelict houses. A memorial to forester Roderick Macrae (1873–1955) was erected by the New …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… experiments. These trials were extended under the Forest Service in the 1920s. Concerns about the cost of … as a distinct science and it was thought necessary to train foresters who understood New Zealand conditions. The New …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… plan Following a 1921–23 inventory of native and exotic forests, Forest Service director Leon MacIntosh Ellis …
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Part of story: Exotic forestry
… land, or felled them illegally. In many places the forest (or ‘bush’, as it was called) blocked the development … was popular for building houses – especially in the heavily forested North Island. The new settlements looked completely … develops A timber industry grew and sawmills sprang up near forests and in coastal towns. As railways were built, …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… more than 80% of the land was covered with tall evergreen forests. There were two main types: conifer–broadleaf forest …
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Part of story: Conifer–broadleaf forests
… Lindsay Poole was a forester and senior public servant who guided the New … Forest Service, was charged with administering state forests, overseeing the sale of areas of forest to …
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… Mountain vegetation The montane forests of Taranaki Maunga are found only in Te Papakura o …
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Part of story: Taranaki region