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Test burning

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Test burning

Since 2001 there has been research into the effects of burning tall-tussock grasslands, on a variety of sites. The plant biomass and soil nutrient pools are measured before and after burning, and fire behaviour is monitored. These scenes are from a test site on the high, rolling country at Moa Flat Station, inland from Dunedin.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 1 April 2006, p. 17

by Stephen Jaquiery

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Robert Peden, Fire and agriculture – Burning and erosion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15220/test-burning (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.