Podocarp research - historical and general
- Document Type
- Reports, Letters
- Author
- Beveridge, A.E., Nicholls, J.L.
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Forest Research Institute
- Accession Number
- TTT000151
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000151
- Location
- Room 927 Lever arch file 28/4 (FRI)
- MS Number
- FRI 151
- Future Storage
- Forest Research Institute archives
- Period
- 1952-1987
- Volume
- 50 pp
- Content
- Correspondence on research policy. Sections tagged: 1. Defects in totara wood (kaikaka); totara and rimu provenance trials - correspondence; 2. Seed collections of rimu, totara, Halls totara; 3. Instructions for collecting seed; 4. Podocarp age structure - matai; 5. Species succession in podocarp-tawa forest Whirinaki and Pureora - ministerial by John Nicholls, 4pp, 21.9.1979. A review -?Sound (Beveridge); 6. Transcript of Radio NZ interview with V. Young Minister of Forests on Whirinaki (missing); 7. Management trials CNI (Beveridge 23.11.73); 9. Podocarp silvicultural research 1954 (starts in North Island - R Cameron, J Holloway, P McKelvey, Wodzicki on seed eating rodents, H Hinds.
- Future Work
- Seed collection procedures were developed and a totara provenance trial established in the 1980s.
- Reference
- Review by John Nicholls still of interest and relevance.
- General Note
- Some comments by pioneers of research in North Island forests, 1952-1984. Ideas on required research and nature of podocarp forests. Most of the outlined activities have been developed.
- Sort
- Sorted and indexed
- Publish
- Reference source only
- Researchers
- P McKelvey, R Cameron
- Security
- Medium
- Restriction
- Subject to FRI approval
- Species
- tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), podocarps (Podocarpaceae)
- Keywords
- Age Structure, Podocarps, Seed Collecting, Succession, Tawa
- Subject Areas