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Landscape plan for Trotters Gorge, 1983

New Zealand Forest Service landscape architects Clive Anstey and Steve Thompson assessed the landscape of Trotters Gorge near Palmerston in Otago in 1983. In this drawing they specified the exotic planting plan for the gorge and noted areas of significant native bush. 

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Kerryn Pollock, Landscape architecture – Modern landscape architecture, 1960s to 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/42921/landscape-plan-for-trotters-gorge-1983 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 1 October 2013, updated 26 March 2015.