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Story: Dune lands

Planting pine forest

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Watch radiata pine seedlings being planted in former dune lands re-vegetated with tree lupin.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Pictorial Parade 168, National Film Unit, 1965

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Carl Walrond, Dune lands – The ‘problem’ of drifting sands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/14043/planting-pine-forest (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.