Eastern District - Beech Files and Guff - Beech Management
- Document Type
- Various, Plans
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Archives New Zealand
- Accession Number
- TTT001018
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000018
- Location
- Dunedin Archives
- Archives Number
- CATM, D67, 61i
- Period
- 1971 - 1981
- Volume
- Four separate folders (approx. 160 pp in total)
- Content
- Folder 1: Contains sample plot records for silver beech regeneration survey in scarified area of Catlins Forest off "Rocky Knob" road (1979). Has a map of the location of this regeneration survey.Folder 2 and 4: Notes on beech management and research (regeneration and silvicultural techniques) with a map of the beech forests in Eastern and Western Southland. There are notes on beech silviculture in Longwood (sample plot s.108) and Woodlaw Forests (sample plot s.52).Folder 3: Sample Plot s.398 (Catlins Forest) brief details of the proposed plan for scarifying control there including method and assessment techniques.There are some loose notes at the back of this file with a report on 'Some Observations on the Management of Silver Beech' by Valentine, J. M. covering the current practices and silvicutural systems and the different regeneration processes of beech with the associated management.
- Source
- Catlins Forest and Southland beech forests in general
- Future Work
- No.
- Sort
- Further indexing is desirable.
- Publish
- No
- Researchers
- J M Valentine
- Security
- High
- Species
- silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii)
- Keywords
- Beech, Beech Management, Indigenous Silviculture, Regeneration
- Subject Areas
- Forest Management: Various management techniques that have been applied in southland beech forest.
- Regeneration: Silver beech regeneration in scarified areas.
- Silviculture: Thinning and pruning techniques with beech.