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… settlement seems to have been restricted to the cloudy and forest-fringed coastline with its resources of fish and bird … or accidental fires lit by early man destroyed much of the forest cover and extended the area of tussock grassland. …
… was called Toikairakau, the wood-eater, because he lived on forest foods. This name gives him an important place in …
… 10 years, the sight of white ice cliffs in the dense rain forest continues to attract many people. The glaciers also …
… long weapon, a spear. In New Zealand with its abundance of forest trees, new long weapons evolved and became more …
… In a natural state it is found in open lowland or montane forest throughout North, South, and Stewart Islands. Along … Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington. …
… all fires other than property fires (i.e., grass, scrub, forest fires, etc.) remain the responsibility of the rural … local authority, which is a rural fire authority under the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1947. For operations at serious …
… sharp boundary between the dry tussock lands and the damp, forested hill country of the Sounds, development has been … soil erosion and reversion to scrub and second growth forest on the hills. Recently the Sounds have enjoyed … of the Sounds area: its higher rainfall, former forest cover, and its marine resources. There were whaling …
… and in some cases hindered the regrowth of native forests and damaged tussock grassland. The deterioration of … of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Protection Forestry Division of the New Zealand Forest Service, the Department of Lands and Survey, and the …
… on chemical control of diseases. Research on diseases of forest trees is carried out by the plant pathologists employed by the Forest Research Institute of the State Forest Service. At …
… On trees and shrubs commonly at the margin of low-level forests in the North Island is a handsome bright-green, … notes. Like ochrina it is found at the lower margins of the forest, but darker and hairier types occur also in the upper … M. cauta (2.1 cm) is an insect of the trees of lowland forest; its song is harsh and loud and the insect is very …