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… 0.4 National parks, reserves, and domains 5.1 State-forest land 9.8 Other land, including waste land, such as … and fat lambs and the moister soils, mostly formed under forest, are used also for dairying. Pastures on these soils … districts, like Southland and Wellington, were formed under forest and have nutty subsoils. When sown to pasture with …
… 1866 to 1870, and was the first parliamentarian to advocate forest conservation. A member of the Philosophical Society … . by Alan Drummond McKinnon, B.FOR.SC. Assistant Director (Forest Management) New Zealand Forest Service, Wellington …
… is a small to tall shrub common in montane to subalpine forests from the Mamuku Plateau southwards to Stewart … as these introduced animals (mainly red deer) eat out the forest undergrowth, horopito frequently takes its place. Thus it is becoming very common in some broadleaf forests. Frequently it forms thickets after the destruction …
… in quantity. Matai occurs throughout the country in lowland forest. It is rare in Stewart Island and most frequent in the forests of the pumice country in the centre of the North … helps to form the scattered, emergent upper storey of tall forest trees. It grows to heights of 80 ft and the trunk is …
… family that is mainly tropical and subtropical. Puriri is a forest tree growing to 40–60 ft high or so. The short trunk … in. through. The range of puriri is in coastal and lowland forests from the north to just below the centre of the North … soils, it has largely been cleared away from its natural forest; but it is planted widely as an ornamental and street …
… (1832–89). Farmer, forest ranger, and member of Parliament. William Jackson was … year he was authorised to raise a company of 60 for the Forest Rangers. This suited his adventurous disposition …
… with some mixed agricultural farming on the lower land. Forestry, with its related activities, is the important industry of the district. The New Zealand Forest Service operates a large sawmill at Conical Hill (8 …
… ( Podocarpus totara ). The Maoris prized this forest tree more highly than any other because of the … Islands. It occurs more sparsely than rimu, the main large forest tree, but is plentiful on shingly river flats. It is … Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington. …
… in shrubland and in open places in coastal and montane forest throughout New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. It … often comes in profusely on cuttings running through damp forest. It is a straggling plant, much branched from the … Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington. …
… occupy the country, they found vast areas clothed in dense forest. In the centre of the North Island, however, volcanic eruptions had caused widespread destruction of the forests, the charred remains of which may now be found … and for hollowing out their canoes, resulted in further forest losses. It was inevitable that European settlement, …