Eastern District/Tapanui - Silviculture Management and Research of Indigenous Forests
- Document Type
- Reports, Letters
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Archives New Zealand
- Accession Number
- TTT001021
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000021
- Location
- Dunedin Archives
- Archives Number
- CATM, D67, 43d, 28/19/1
- Period
- 1964 - 1986
- Volume
- Approx. 150 pp
- Content
- Contains two unedited contibutions to the Forestry Handbook of NZ Institute of Foresters (approx. 40 pp from back of file):Report 1: Notes on the silviculture of kauri including the ecology,silvicultural charateristics, management and artificial establishment.Report 2: Notes on silviculture of red and silver beech including management of natural regeneration and artificial establishment. There are notes (approx. 40 pp from start of file) on indigenous silviculture and the performance of planted podocarps that were planted during 1959 to 1963.There are notes on 'Raising of indigenous tree species' (approx. 25 pp from start of file) including artificial establishment of rimu and the related techniques for collecting and handling seed, cleaning seeds, pre-sowing treatment of seed, sowing, lining-out, weedicides, conditioning, collecting and lining out of wildings and recommended planting techniques. These particular notes are also found in two other files held at the Dunedin Archives (CATM, 18286, D68, 165l, 28/10/2A and CATM, 18286, D68, 165k, 28/10/2) and also Auckland Archives BBQI, 7496, 23c, 27/2/1/1, 1).
- Future Work
- No.
- Sort
- Adequate. Sorted by date.
- Publish
- Yes, possibly
- Researchers
- D A Franklin, A E Beveridge
- Security
- High
- Species
- kauri (Agathis australis), rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), red beech (Nothofagus fusca), silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii)
- Keywords
- Artificial Regeneration, Beech Silviculture, Indigenous Silviculture, Kauri, Kauri Silviculture, Lining-Out, Natural Regeneration, Nothofagus Species, Seed
- Subject Areas
- Silviculture: Performance of silver and red beech with natural regeneration and artificial establishment. Silvicultural characteristics of kauri.