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… the largest forms and most luxuriant grow in the damp forests. They vary from the large Hymenophyllum dilatatum , … Ferns of the Forest Floor …
… had not been successful and that protection of the forest was essential, the 1913 Royal Commission on Forestry began its work. It was charged with the examination … 1913 Royal Commission and the Formation of a State Forest Service …
… The extent of forest before human settlement commenced is now impossible … settlement began, at least two-thirds of the country was forest clad. Both Maori occupation and other influences brought about constant changes in the forests. These will be described briefly. European …
… State forests, the setting aside of which had been provided for under the first Forests Act in 1874, were now defined in a special section … could be set aside as “permanent” or “provisional” State forest. The former was forest land which should come under … State Forests …
… On the western side of the divide, temperate rain forest reaches from the sea to a height of 4,000 ft, and in … the bush line, e.g., Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers. The forest is composed of beech ( Nothofagus menziesii and N. … subalpine tussock with small areas of beech and totara forest in gullies and patches which have escaped destruction …
… In descriptions of New Zealand forests distinction is usually made between the broad … (almost entirely evergreen) types; (b) Mixed broadleaf forest (the same forest as above) containing coniferous trees, mainly … FORESTS, INDIGENOUS …
… By and large, the coastal forests consisted of mixed broadleaf types, though in many … some podocarps, or, in the north, kauri. Most of this forest has disappeared and the lower remnants are usually … eaten out by stock; intact samples are rare. The coastal forest from the North Cape to the East Cape and Taranaki was …
… first settlers found a large part of New Zealand covered by forest, but in areas such as North and South Auckland, the … and evidence suggests that a good deal of this had been in forest in the not-far-distant past. Forests are of two main … The Forests …
… ( Pinus radiata ). This forest tree, limited in its natural distribution mainly to … in islands off the Californian coast. No other coniferous forest tree has attracted so much attention or shown such … promise of becoming, in the course of time, one of the main forest trees of the world. In all probability close to 1 …
… The forest and its products were tapu to the god Tane. This tapu was rigorously imposed and applied not only to all forest trees but in particular to those reserved for fowling …