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… the consequences of rapid exploitation and waste of its forest resources and the conversion to farmland of its well-vegetated landscapes. This transformation of forest cover, with allied grass, fern, shrub, and swamp …
… of agricultural work. Appointed Chief Conservator of State Forests in 1885, Kirk organised the first State Forests branch of the Department of Lands and Survey. Though …
… since its range included both the more open portions of forest and a variety of open country habitats. It is of more … ) ranged in the early days of settlement from forest to open plain, extending into the mountains; it is … (leaves, buds, and fruits, together with insects) in the forests covering mountain valleys. It ranges widely along …
… which is a small tree 15–25 ft high common in open, lowland forest from near the north to about the centre of the North … Island. C. grandifolia grows to 20 ft high and is common in forest up to the lower montane level throughout the North … The latter occurs particularly on alluvial soils in open forest and in shrubland. C. repens or taupata is a prostrate …
… element, in association with certain of the originally forest-inhabiting native birds. The following are almost … birds into the remaining extensive tracts of native forest: three of the introduced species (blackbird, song … this habitat; and the hedge sparrow is an inhabitant of the forest edge. …
… tours of exploration and his concern for the future of the forest, which in certain districts was facing destruction, … in a paper The Utilisation of New Zealand Timbers . His Forest Flora was commissioned by the Government, but …
… and 76 per cent found in New Zealand. In lower altitude dry forest are Metrosideros kermadecensis, Cyathea milnei, … Corynocarpus laevigatus and Myoporum laetum . In wetter forest above are Ascarina lanceolata, Cyathea kermadecensis, … Snares (48° S) have Olearia lyallii and Senecio stewartiae forest and grassland dominated by Poa litorosa and Poa …
… of the dividing ranges, covered for the most part by dense forest, was readily accessible only by such waterways as the … of the lower Wairarapa Valley; the clearing of the forest from the lowlands both east and west of the main …
… was considerable work in the making of a large canoe from a forest tree. First, a tohunga would lift the tapu from the tree and Tane, ruler of the forest, be propitiated by appropriate ritual. Totara was the …
… a height of about 30 ft. In open lowland and lower montane forest throughout the country it is one of the commonest … berry. M. macropyhllus , a tree in lowland to lower montane forest from Northland to about the centre of the North … Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington. …