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… Bush and forest fires on the grand scale have not been uncommon in …
… largest remaining virgin and millable expanses of podocarp forest are in the region, rimu being the preferred timber. The beech forests are less favoured because the timbers are … Only in recent years has investigation into sustained yield forestry been undertaken and it is recognised that the …
… with new land-development projects. The New Zealand Forest Service maintains the Forest Research Institute at Rotorua, which studies the …
… and soil: lowland swamp and heath; lowland scrub; rain forest; tall subalpine scrub; and short scrub and boggy … of the “tops”. The scrub is mainly manuka, but the rain forest of limited sheltered areas, notably in the vicinity … regeneration as well as damaging such patches of uncut forest as remain. Captain Cook sighted Stewart Island though …
… green colour. Some are epiphytes and others scramble over forest trees and shrubs, mainly on the margins of forests; they vary greatly in size, the smallest having … L. billardieri is common in lowland and montane forests; the hanging stems branch freely and are densely …
… some causing damage to our native pasture plants and forest trees, but none is of major economic importance … be rare as only one bacterial disease, a leaf spot of the forest tree Dysoxylum spectabile caused by Pseudomonas …
… the earth-mother. But they all failed. Then Tane-mahuta (forest-god) lay on his back and, pressing upwards with his … others. When they moved abroad the dust flew, and the great forest trees of Tane broke off short under the attack and … because of their cowardice. First he attacked Tane-of-the-forest, felling his trees and trapping, spearing, and eating …
… and towns own and are developing large tracts of exotic forest – a present and potential source of income. In one …
… In the autumn when the main harvests of sea, land, and forest had been gathered and stored for winter, the people …
… Its boundaries, which lie along the Rangitata River from Forest Creek to where Camp Creek joins the Havelock River, …