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… Under natural conditions forest foods available were roots, pith, shoots, and leaves …
… When the rain forest of the North Island was felled and burnt, the hills … Pastures usually established well on the ash of the forest fires and the accumulated humus, but the early …
… clothed in the northern type of podocarp, mixed hardwood forest with magnificent stands of kauri. These latter have … completely cut out, but there is still a remnant of native forest covering most of the north, with some patches in the … and south. Here, too, are areas of regenerating native forest, but over most of the rest of the interior is a …
… vegetation was mostly nothofagus (or beech) and podocarp forest, and it remains so over large areas because of the steep terrain. A portion of the forest is still being exploited; the remainder has been … area is occupied by scrub and poorly regenerated forest. The land-utilisation survey for 1959 estimated that …
… Owing to the wet climate of most parts of New Zealand, forest, scrub, and fern were the major plant coverings when … Island were developed for farming more rapidly than the forest-clad North Island. Hard tussock ( Festuca … where introduced grasses are more common. In second-growth forest in the North Island, creeping mats of Oplismensus …
… mountain vegetation is found on Mt. Egmont where mixed rain forest gives place to shorter trees and shrubs; Libocedrus , … aspects as the nearby Kaimanawas, but instead of mixed rain forest, there is on Ruapehu a beech forest showing great variation in leaf form. The plant …
… bed, on which can be detected tree stumps of a submerged forest, was for many years of disputed Maori ownership. The …
… in the flora. It occurs as a ground plant or an epiphyte in forests of the North Island, particularly in North Auckland. … Island. It is found in shrubland along stream banks and forest margins. O. rani , or heketara, is a shrub or small tree reaching 25 ft found throughout lowland forest in the North Island and the northern tip of the South …
… Timber is milled in the 17,000-acre Karioi State Forest (8 miles south), and native timber is milled in the … was followed quickly by intensive timber milling. As the forest was cleared, cattle and sheep were introduced and …
… cunninghamii , found perched on trees throughout lowland forests. It has large, many-flowered racemes of whitish or … mucronata is also epiphytic on trees throughout lowland forests and has white, sweet-scented flowers. E. autumnalis … species, but frequently occurs as a ground plant in beech forest. The most abundant species outside forest areas is …