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Julius Haast’s painting of Mt MacKay at Lake Rotoroa illustrates Māori agricultural burning practice. The fern garden in the foreground could only have been maintained by regular burning, to prevent the nearby forest from reclaiming it.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: A-108-034
by Johann Franz Julius von Haast
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