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… Salmon’s H eritage destroyed (1960) and Morton’s To save a forest (1984) became classics, while the younger ecologist …
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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… a tradition of walking and tramping in national and forest parks. An extensive network of tracks and huts, many …
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Part of story: Sports and leisure
… that interferes with the objectives of farming or forestry, such as growing crops, grazing animals or cultivating forest plantations. A weed may also be defined as any plant … These include wilding pines ( Pinus spp.), used in forestry and now a pest in tussock grassland, and sweet …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… grasp food. The herbivorous kākāpō eats large quantities of forest fruit, seeds, leaves and roots. Long-lived slow …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… such as ‘indiscriminate clearing and burning of natural forest cover for farms, uncontrolled dumping of waste rock …
Type: Biography
… local terms, such as bush corridor (linked stands of native forest which allow birds and other fauna to travel) kiwi …
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Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… Pākehā and Māori women to enter Parliament. He encouraged forest conservation, and was one of the leaders of the …
Type: Biography
… ports and railways. In 1870 most of the region was still forested. Over the next 50 years around 4,000 square …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… roads. Building roads New Zealand’s mountainous, swampy and forested landscape made road-building hard work. Before …
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Part of story: Rural services
… for hunting. Red deer and pigs are found in the forests and mountains, and in Fiordland National Park along …
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Part of story: Southland region
… travellers from Taupō, Whanganui and Taranaki. Some native forest in the area was felled to make way for the main trunk …
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Part of story: King Country places
… to Lake Taupō. Tia climbed Tītīraupenga in the Pureora Forest, while Ngātoroirangi climbed Mount Tongariro, where …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… located inland from Thames. This part of Coromandel Forest Park is much used by school groups and summer …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… district. Over the next few decades settlers cleared the forest and built townships at Lower Hutt, Petone and Upper …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… sister in Tokoroa, where he found work at the New Zealand Forest Products sawmill in Kinleith for the next seven … a hard persona. In 1970 he was transferred to New Zealand Forest Products’ sawmill at Whakatāne. On 6 October 1973, at …
Type: Biography
… brothers unsuccessfully tried their hand at goldmining at Forest Creek in Victoria. In 1853 Nathanael returned by the …
Type: Biography
… with her daughter, Frances Mary Simcox, and her family at Forest Lakes, Ōtaki, where she died on 2 September 1904. …
Type: Biography
… due to Te Roroa from the sale of the Maunganui and Waipoua Forest blocks. Her father had been convinced that he had …
Type: Biography
… 'A bivouac of travellers in Australia, in a Cabbage-tree Forest, Day Break' in 1838 was his final appearance at the …
Type: Biography
… is harmonious and peaceful and delicious. We camp in a pine forest – beautiful. We sleep in the tent – the wind is our …
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Part of story: Camping