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… there were battles with government bureaucracy. The Forest Service required that deer farms had to be set up … three government agencies – the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Forest Service and the Ministry of Works. Domestication The …
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Part of story: Deer and deer farming
… from Muriwhenua to the Waimamaku River valley, Waipoua Forest, Kaihū River valley and Kaipara Harbour, where they … the tribe's heartland, was Te Waonui-a-Tiriwa (the great forest of Tiriwa). The tribe trace their descent from the …
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Part of story: Tāmaki tribes
… the south. In between was Te Rohe Pōtae, a rugged, heavily forested land under the control of Māori and out of bounds … turned the historic Ōngarue tramway in the Pureora Forest into a walking and cycling track. The tramway had …
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Part of story: King Country region
… responsible for fires not involving buildings. Under the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977, forest and vegetation fires became the responsibility of the …
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Part of story: Rural services
… grazing animals. Kōkako (wattlebirds) still run through the forest along branches rather like squirrels. Ground-dwelling …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… volumes of water, discoloured after passing through native forest and layers of rotting leaf litter, flow down into the …
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Part of story: Fiords
… but the others wanted to separate them. Tāne, the god of forests, separated the parents by pushing them apart. …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… to attack from both native and introduced insects, and farm foresters have become wary of investing too much effort in …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… was solved, about 400,000 hectares were planted in exotic forest ( Pinus radiata ) as the only viable land use. Large areas are now being converted from forestry to pasture for dairying. Pumice soils usually have … and possibly nitrogen and potassium are needed for exotic forestry, especially where the soil is coarse and the …
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Part of story: Soils and regional land use
… a storm drove ships aground in the harbour and flattened forest in the Tararua Range. In April 1968 a hurricane-force …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… including the transfer to iwi ownership of Maramarua Crown Forest land. The Marutūāhu tribes will also share in wider …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… around 1250–1300 CE. They found a land that was heavily forested, apart from the semi-arid regions of Central Otago …
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Part of story: Fire and agriculture
… in Taupō and Rotorua where workers were needed in the forest industry. After a few years many had moved to …
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Part of story: Tokelauans
… boost the growing nation with settlement, public works and forest clearing. Most of the 230 town workers who responded …
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Part of story: Italians
… fledglings survive to adulthood. In a study in Pureora Forest in 1997, robins in an area treated with 1080 poison …
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Part of story: Possums
… are also challenges as non-Māori engage with kaitiakitanga. Forest or waterway management involves parties such as …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… Coromandel. In Northland, brown kiwi have colonised pine forests. Tokoeka Once thought to be a variety of brown kiwi, …
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Part of story: Kiwi
… depending on the size of the larva and where it is living. Forest-dwelling glow-worms hang lines that are only 1–2 …
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Part of story: Glow-worms
… of the Māori arrived to a vast, cool archipelago covered in forest, with abundant wildlife. There were moa species …
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Part of story: Pacific migrations
… with the ancestress Hine-tītama and her husband the forest god Tāne. Hine-tītama fled to Rarohenga, where the …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs