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Kōrero: Waikato places

Pirongia mountain

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Pirongia mountain

Pirongia mountain has one of the largest areas of forest in the Waikato region. Trees there escaped the logging that occurred elsewhere. In 1971 the mountain became a forest park. In contrast, the land around it has been cleared of original vegetation and turned into pasture.

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Pirongia te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society

by Tui Allen

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato places – Te Awamutu, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27320/pirongia-mountain (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 26 May 2010, updated 11 June 2015.