Tawa research general
- Document Type
- Reports, Letters, Numerical data, Data records
- Author
- Smale, M.C.
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Forest Research Institute
- Accession Number
- TTT000153
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000153
- Location
- Room 927 Lever Arch file 28/6/0/3
- MS Number
- FRI 153
- Future Storage
- Forest Research Institute archives
- Period
- 1955-1987
- Volume
- 300 pp
- Content
- File note (no author, undated, probably Smale c.1984) at front has summary of ecology and management prospects for tawa and other indigenous broadleaved trees. FRI research programme in Rotoehu SF started by J Mawson 1955, then R Usmar, R Cameron. Correspondence with Conservancy and useful technical information. Sections tagged: 1. Tawa end use, tawa management prospects, growth rate assessment Pureora (Smale, Gibson 1980s); 2. Tawa growth, Hurakia Forest trial (now in Pureora Forest Park); 3-4. Proposed tawa management trial, Hurakia, tawa growth, forest history; 3. Regeneration strategies for tawa, Okurapoto, Whirinaki Forests; 6. Tawa studies, Pureora; 7. Tawa management, tawa and totara mortality in Urewera, Tawa seed production; 8. Research prior to 1964, flowering and fruiting of tawa, pulpwood volumes Mamaku cutover forest; 9. Tawa management Mamaku, growth rates Rotoehu Forest; 10. Tawa, Rotoehu and Mamaku Forests, tawa transect data Rotoehu. File contains several published papers.
- Source
- Rotorua Forest Conservancy
- Future Work
- Tawa studies continuing, mainly in central North Island (M C Smale), including forest dynamics, growth rates, general ecology
- Sort
- Sorted
- Publish
- Material suitable for publication, also reference source.
- Security
- Medium
- Restriction
- Subject to FRI approval
- Species
- tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile), hinau (Elaeocarpus dentatus), rewarewa (Knightia excelsa), mangeao (Litsae calicaris)
- Keywords
- Ecology, Hurakia Forest, Mamaku Forest, Management, Pureora Forest, Rotoehu Forest, Tawa
- Subject Areas