Travelling from Sydney up to Brisbane, through the lowlands, across the wetlands, crossing rivers, seeing tree ferns – I can’t help thinking …
forests
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Are the consequences of a fire in Tasmania 3,600 years ago, still present?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSitting a little above the more famous lake of Cradle Mountain National Park , Tasmamia – Dove Lake, is Wombat Pool. Some …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Jurassic fossil soils of Curio Bay, and Fortrose-Otara, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSoils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question …
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When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …
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We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Immolation of Waimate Bush, Canterbury, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Lost Taieri/Taiari Bush, near Dunedin, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleLeads to New Zealand’s ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I …
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Autobiography & Travel
A Short Walk in the Lamington Kush – The Stintson plane wreck, Australia
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“If I had a camera I could take a photo and show guests what my uncle’s legs looked like after he found …
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Could the Bunya Mountains be the one place to turn your preconceptions of human nature on its head? *** I recently finished …
