Totara plantations on hard upland site with Eucalyptus nurse
- Document Type
- Sample Plot Folder
- Author
- Bergin, D.O., Beveridge, A.E., Steward, G.A.
- Project Creator
- NZ Forest Service
- Current Holder
- Forest Research Institute
- Accession Number
- TTT002001
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000001
- Location
- Held in Scion archives
- Other Reference Number
- Auckland Sample plot A801/3. Pureora plot 1/58
- Future Storage
- Hold copies at Archives NZ and FR
- Period
- 1958 - 2005
- Volume
- 30 typed sheets & location plan
- Content
- First planting of totara in Pureoa on an upland site, using wildings of local provenance and a nurse of E delegatensis. Forest soil (tephra) develpoed under dense podocarp forest, logged and cleared by tractor. Eucalypt and some totara felled 2004. Growth sampled
- Source
- Pureora. By Pikiariki Ecological Area, Link Rd
- Future Work
- Assess growth of planted totara in Pureora Forest Park. Signpost site & record GPS position.
- Reference
- Referred to in Beveridge A E, The role of planting native trees in the management of disturbed forest , in Native Trees for the Future. Silvester W & McGowan R Eds, University of Waikato, 2000. Photograph in NZ Jnl Forestry 45(1) pg 42. 2000Thesis by D Bergin, University of Waikato, pg 18. 2001
- General Note
- Inspection notes on plot 1/58, dated 4 Jan 2005 & 25 Jan 2005 sent to Maniopoto office of Dept ConservationCross ref to No. TTT000091 -probably same trial
- Sort
- None
- Copy
- Yes – copy for Archives NZ
- Publish
- Consider publication comparing totara performance here to sites where it is planted in logged gaps and in fire induced scrub (Pureora plots 3/59 & 4/59 [Auckland SP A295] -also in Tihoi forest.
- Security
- Medium
- Species
- totara (Podocarpus totara)
- Keywords
- Planting, Pureora Forest, Releasing, Totara & Supression Of Weeds, Totara Plantation, Totara With Eucalypt Nurse, Upland Site
- Subject Areas
- Forest Management: Possibilities for carbon storage.
- Establishment: Performance of totara wildings on harsh open site. Grass and dense blackberry with ultimate supression by closed canopy.