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… for search and rescue operations and in the event of forest fires. There are specialised forecasts for mountain …
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Part of story: Weather forecasting
… as people of the land – the children of Tāne, god of the forest. The marine realm belonged to the god Tangaroa, whose …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… aside as a native bush reserve in 1857, the former swamp forest was cleared, sown to pasture and leased for grazing. …
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Part of story: Public gardens
… was needed to protect their crops and orchards once native forest was cleared. For and against trees on farms Over the … profitable in the long term to convert poor-quality land to forestry, they are unwilling to risk the short-term profit …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… nearby Te Teko were flooded. Matahina Power station, pine forest and locality on the Rangitāiki River. It lies at the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… birds and kiore (rats) in tahā (calabashes), and various forest products including hīnau cakes. Tītī (muttonbirds) …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… Committee, formed to advocate the protection of Waipoua Forest from milling, in 1947 he petitioned Parliament, … asking 'That the song of the axe and saw in Waipoua Forest be stopped at once'; the area was made a forest …
Type: Biography
… enlisted as a sergeant in William Jackson's newly formed Forest Rangers. The rangers took Gustavus Ferdinand von … he joined the unit as an ensign. A second company of Forest Rangers was formed in November, with Tempsky in command and Roberts as his subaltern. The Forest Rangers moved south to join Lieutenant General D. A. …
Type: Biography
… camped in the canopies of tōtara trees in Pureora Forest, stopping forest workers from felling them. Their action was widely …
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Part of story: Public protest
… came under the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. The Forest Service carried out research through the Forest Research Institute at Rotorua. From 1987 this came under the Ministry of Forestry. Crown research institutes The DSIR and other …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… travel was often extremely difficult, especially in heavily forested, swampy or mountainous areas. Many colonists, … Other obstacles – a rugged and unstable landscape, dense forests, fast-flowing rivers, provincial rivalries, and (in …
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Part of story: Railways
… Hakihea (November–December) Tī kouka was dug, and early forest fruits were collected. Kererū were taken on tawa … Kohi-tātea (December–January) Tī kōuka was dug for kāuru. Forest foods, including tutu berries, raupō pollen, roots …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… seen poking out of the sand. These formed part of a coastal forest that was drowned and buried by rising sea levels over … 8,000 years ago. With the coast now rising, the ancient forest has been eerily re-exposed. The stumps have been …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… and explorer William Colenso, looking at the Whirinaki forest, saw ‘Solitude all!!’ 8 A songless land In his poem … No sound of waters falling lone and grand Through sighing forests to the lower vale No whisper in the grass, so wan, …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… farmland, orchards, shrublands, and native and introduced forest up to the subalpine zone. They feed on fallen seed, … are spread over most of New Zealand, other than heavily forested or alpine areas. They have also reached most of the …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… Other orders sprang up, including: the Ancient Order of Foresters, which had its first court in 1861 and by 1879 had … women’s lodges of equal status with men’s. In 1894 the Foresters opened two courts for women, and the other orders …
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Part of story: Men’s clubs
… his son, Jack, who was to become New Zealand's foremost forest ecologist and an honorary Otago DSc, and Dame Ella … of all ferns, Tmesipteris , grew abundantly in Westland forests and its life cycle was still largely mysterious. …
Type: Biography
… Leicester City, Burnley, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest). In the 2024-25 Premier League season, Wood scored 20 goals for Nottingham Forest in 36 appearances and was voted into the Professional …
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Part of story: Football
… of mainly radiata pine after 1950 made the Whangapoua State Forest (7,800 ha) Coromandel’s largest. The destruction of regenerating native forest was an unfortunate cost. Whangapoua Beach was …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… 22 kilometres west of Ōhura. Waitaanga is surrounded by forested conservation areas on most sides. European farmers … 20th century. Europeans first arrived in 1906. The native forest was burned and felled and dairy, sheep and beef farms …
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Part of story: King Country places