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… Vegetation The western lowlands are often dominated by tall forests of rimu and kahikatea. Beneath are kāmahi, Quintinia … have deeply leached, low-nutrient soils, with rimu forests and low forest of silver and pink pine. In many …
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Part of story: Ecoregions
… largely melted. Snow next fell in Auckland in August 2011. Forests Kauri forests and mixed conifer–broadleaf forests …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… possums have had an immense effect on New Zealand’s native forests and wildlife. Continual browsing by larger animals … out certain palatable plants has changed the makeup of forests. Mammalian predators that hunt by scent (such as …
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Part of story: Conservation – a history
… and the bush Māori had an equivalent word for the bush or forest: ‘te ngahere’. As migrants from Pacific islands, they … as the Milford Track encouraged a more positive view of the forests as unique and beautiful. During the first half of … and a network of tracks and huts was built through forested areas. From the 1950s, gardeners began to …
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Part of story: The New Zealand bush
… Habitat Both species of New Zealand bat are found in native forests from sea level to the treeline. Their natural … and long-tailed bats were once numerous and widespread in forested regions. The most conservative estimate for the …
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Part of story: Bats
… fertiliser, they boost the growth of crops, pasture and forest plantations. …
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… they arrived unassisted. Native birds still rule the forests Introduced species are far less common in indigenous forests, where native birds prevail. On mammal-free islands …
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Part of story: Land birds – overview
… They had the task of avenging any desecration of the forest’s sacredness. An old tradition tells of a man named … required incantations before he felled a large tree in the forest, cutting off its branches to make a canoe from the …
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Part of story: Te aitanga pepeke – the insect world
… City and northern Hawke’s Bay. It is a problem in native forest reserves, where it smothers trees and shrubs. In the USA this weed can overrun entire forests. Jasmine ( Jasminum polyanthum ) Jasmine is a …
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Part of story: Weeds of the bush
… be hazardous to stock and farm property during storms. Farm forestry Radiata pine is the most popular tree in farm forests in New Zealand. Farm forestry spans a continuum of … of an entire farm to a productive forest one or more small forests or woodlots on part of a farm agroforestry, where …
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Part of story: Trees in the rural landscape
… in northern Fiordland; fallow deer occur in low-altitude forests; and sika, sambar and rusa in North Island forests. … were colonised. Impact of deer By about 1910, farmers and foresters were worried about the impact of large herds of …
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Part of story: Deer and deer farming
… Much of Canterbury was originally covered by tall podocarp forests. Kahikatea and mataī trees flourished in fertile, … Europeans arrived, less than one-tenth of the region was forested. Timber was cut or burnt to create pasture, further …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… distribution. Most were set aside by the former New Zealand Forest Service as a result of conservation activism in the … Sanctuary, created in the 1980s to protect the podocarp forests of Whirinaki Forest Park. Ecological areas …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… mountain At 952 m, the tallest peak in the Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park. The 360-degree views from the summit take in … oldest railway with rails still in place. Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park Forest park covering 37,000 hectares. The Kaimai …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… flames, acrid smoke, blackened tree stumps … burning the forest had a dramatic impact, but it was once a common way …
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… that protect against drying winds and intense sunlight. Forest Most of New Zealand’s ferns and lycophytes are found … than in damp gullies. At higher altitudes, in wet mountain forests, large clumps of crepe ferns ( Leptopteris …
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Part of story: Ferns and lycophytes
… related subtropical trees and shrubs found in New Zealand forests have strikingly different juvenile and adult forms. … a much less common type of lancewood, restricted to lowland forests in the two main islands. It has heavily toothed …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… plants to colonise bare ground created by events such as forest fires and landslides. These trees are found in forest and scrub throughout New Zealand. All three produce … serrata ) often form dense thickets in regenerating forest. It has clusters of attractive rose-pink flowers in …
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Part of story: Shrubs and small trees of the forest
… earliest date from the 1850s. An 1877 report by an overseas forester stated, ‘The universal use of the tramway forms a marked feature of the treatment of New Zealand forests. I have seen them of all descriptions and no …
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Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… trade, this cat-sized marsupial has wreaked havoc on native forests and wildlife. …
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