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Kōrero: Logging native forests

Sheep yards

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Sheep yards

Birch Hill sheep station, in high country near Aoraki/Mt Cook, was established in the 1860s. Local timbers were used for enclosures and farm buildings. The fence around these sheep yards is made of tōtara.

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by Chris Jacomb

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Logging native forests – The timber industry, 1840–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12741/sheep-yards (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.