Podocarps planted beneath Pinus ponderosa , Kaingaroa Plateau 1962
- Document Type
- Plans, Data records
- Author
- Preest, D.S.H.
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Forest Research Institute
- Accession Number
- TTT000096
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000096
- Location
- Room 123
- MS Number
- FRI 7
- Other Reference Number
- Sample plot R.1041, FRI 28/6/02, 28/7/2
- Future Storage
- Forest Research Institute archives
- Period
- 1962 -
- Volume
- 40 pp
- Content
- Location plans. Podocarps planted 1962 beneath thin, unthrifty canopy of Pinus ponderosa (planted 1926 and later heavily infected by Dothistroma). Plot of 37 acres well demarkated. Podocarps planted at 12ft x 6ft. Folder contains Project Record 1820 (G Pardy November 1987, 14pp), Project IFM9, Workplan 1246. Sample area remeasured 1975, 1982. Totara most vigorous but with much insect damage and poor bushy form; at 25 years mean height 7m; rimu healthy 5m tall, kahikatea spindly 4m tall. Slasher release, falling pine debris and weed competition reduced survival to 50-60%. Inspected by D Bergin, May 1986. Increasing light with deteriorating pine canopy. Harsh, frosty and droughty site at 550m asl.
- Source
- Kaingaroa SF, Cmpt 1071
- Future Work
- Should ensure that present forest managers (Kaingaroa Timberlands) realise the ecological value of this trial - the largest area in NZ with podocarps planted on a hard site ameliorated by exotic conifer nurse. An indigenous forest 'island' with fruiting podocarps.
- Reference
- 'Native trees for the future'
- General Note
- Canopy closure by podocarps after 40 years has suppressed blackberry.DOC, Bay of Plenty, has been made aware of danger of destruction of the plantation, correspondence 2004 (A E Beveridge)
- Sort
- Sorted
- Publish
- Concise account given on pp 53, 56 of 'Native trees for the future'
- Researchers
- D S Preest
- Security
- Medium
- Restriction
- Subject to FRI approval
- Species
- rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides), totara (Podocarpus totara)
- Keywords
- Kaingaroa Forest, Pine Nurse, Podocarps
- Subject Areas