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… of Rangers which he soon had fighting fiercely in the Hunua Forest. From the outset his energy and daring impressed the …
… area. Access to this country in the days of its primitive forest cover was most difficult. Even now the valleys of the … it has been the site of large-scale plantings of exotic forests. Moreover, new methods and new fertilisers have made …
… citizenship, his establishment of our first adequate forest service, and his advocacy of the League of Nations. …
… was unable to resist the appeal of the magnificent kauri forests of the north, and many of his best sketches, later … of the drawing are subtly and perfectly harmonised. Kauri Forest must properly be regarded as a freak, for never …
… vegetable gardens, potato fields, and a nursery of forest trees. In 1839–40 he made further land purchases at …
… pastures, modified native tussock grassland, artificially afforested land, aquatic places (rivers, streams, irrigation … whether in domestic gardens, agricultural crops, artificial forest plantations, native forests, or pastures, bare ground, either localised or …
… leader. In 1863 he took command of the newly formed Forest Rangers, a corps of 150 men skilled in the techniques …
… done or aided by Government on a large scale (land and forest development, soil conservation); and some results …
… proportion as high as at any time in the past and, although forest products and aluminium may make a greater …
… to about 1,500 ft the mountain is covered with podocarp forest, the original vegetation of the whole lowland region. …