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Kōrero: Human effects on the environment

Forest cleared for farmland

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Forest cleared for farmland

The forest has been cut down, the area burnt and grass sown on these Northland hillsides, around 1910. The photograph was probably taken a few years after burning – timber is still lying on the hillsides, but there has been time to build a farmhouse, sheds and a stockyard.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

Reference: 1/1-010822; G

by Arthur James Northwood

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Janet Wilmshurst, Human effects on the environment – European impact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12542/forest-cleared-for-farmland (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Janet Wilmshurst, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.