Artificial establishment - indigenous trees
- Document Type
- Reports, Letters
- Author
- McQuire, A.J.
- Project Creator
- Forest Research Institute
- Current Holder
- Forest Research Institute
- Accession Number
- TTT000014
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000014
- Location
- Held in Scion archives
- MS Number
- FRI 93
- Other Reference Number
- FRI 28/6/0/2 and other files in 28/ series
- Future Storage
- Forest Research Institute archives
- Period
- 1946-1987
- Volume
- 1000 pp in 3 vols
- Content
- Mainly correspondence on planting techniques on a wide range of sites, receiving and giving advice and reports to Conservancies, private landowners, other Government departments. Reflects changing policies on use of indigenous trees, including 'ministerials', Head Office requests (NZFS Wellington).Earliest entries in Vol 1 by A McQuire on visits to commercial nurseries and establishment of a nursery at Whirinaki Forest (1938-1945).
- Source
- Planting sites throughout NZ
- Future Work
- Mainly of historical interest, eg visit to young kauri plantations in New Plymouth 1946 (McQuire). New Plymouth kauri plantation still being assessed by G Steward.
- Reference
- See KMU material on artificial establishment of kauri, some podocarps (TTT..13)
- General Note
- Many items are also in other folders, but this forms a convenient reference source. See also TTT000154.
- Sort
- Unsorted, Indexed
- Copy
- Not required
- Publish
- Reference source
- Researchers
- A McQuire, J van Dorsser, G Pardy, D Bergin, A Beveridge
- Security
- Medium
- Restriction
- Subject to FRI approval
- Species
- kauri (Agathis australis), kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides), totara (Podocarpus totara), puriri (Vitex lucens), beech (Nothofagus spp)
- Keywords
- Establishment, Fertile Sites, Indigenous Trees, Nursery, Planting, Taranaki
- Subject Areas