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Podocarp Forests, Rotorua Forest Conservancy

Document Type
Reports, General papers, File notes, Review report, Data sheets
Author
Beveridge, A.E., Herbert, J.W.
Project Creator
NZ Forest Service
Current Holder
Forest Research Institute
Accession Number
TTT000161
Old Accession Number
TTT000161
Location
Room 927, Lever Arch file FRI 28/4/2
MS Number
FRI 159
Future Storage
Forest Research Institute archives
Period
1960-1987
Volume
150 pp
Content
10 tagged topics: 1. Rimu in Kaimai-Mamaku SF Park, Windfall assessments Tihoi and Mangawiri; 2. Selective logging trials - Whirinaki, planting podocarps in selectively logged forest incl Notes on bush nursery and nursery raising of rimu wildings (6pp); 3. Selective logging, Podocarp planting at Horohoro; 4. Horohoro forest trials; 5. Selective logging t Whirinaki, Logging at Horohoro; 6. Selective logging in dense podocarp forest; 7. Kokako at Mangarewa Stream Kaharoa, Mangatotara forest, SF14, Management trials central NI; 8. Trials at Mamaku, Tihoi regeneration survey; 9. Assessment of logging indigenous forest Mamaku, Tanekaha study programme at Tihoi 1961; 10. Trial sawing of rimu logs ex Minginui at Waipa. File includes correspondence with Rotorua Conservancy on establishment of FRI trials in these forests; selection management, podocarp enrichment planting. Progress and inspection reports. Forest dynamics - ecological status of rimu and regeneration; file notes on Whirinaki Forest visits (Tag 5 and others); file note (Beveridge 6pp) on selection management; diary notes by Beveridge and Herbert (27.8.75 Whirinaki) on disastrous partial logging by Conservancy in Mangawiri Basin, or conversion.
Source
Central North Island, Whirinaki, Horohoro, Mamaku, Tihoi, Kaharoa, Mangorewa
Future Work
Further assessments could be made of trials established from 1959. Planted podocarps now emergent in Mamaku cutover forest. Cross reference to field trials in CNI forests.
Reference
Whirinaki Bibliography (Beveridge et al, 2004), DOC Science Internal Series 193Mamaku Bibliography (Beveridge, in press 2007)
General Note
Experimental work in Whirinaki Forest and Mamaku Plateau forest is referred to in Bibliographies (q.v.)
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Species
tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides), tanekaha (Phyllocladus trichomanoides), totara (Podocarpus totara), miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea), matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia), podocarps (Podocarpaceae)
Keywords
Ecology, Horohoro Forest, Indigenous Species, Kaharoa, Mamaku Plateau, Mangorewa, Podocarps, Restoration, Rotorua Conservancy, Selection Logging, Tihoi Forest, Whirinaki Forest
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