Living bush and Ghost forest

by Mike Pole
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A portion of one of W.T. Neill’s maps showing a simple green-coloured patch an the left – interpreted as indigenous ‘bush/forest. To the north and east are patches that are uncoloured, but filled with stipple, and have been partially trimmed to property lines – interpreted as ‘ghost forest/bush’. This is in what is now the Fairfield area of Dunedin today, and has been cropped from: R23188990. Sheet No. 25 – Military Topographical Plan – Blocks VII and VIII Dunedin and East Taieri District – W T Neill, Surveyor (1907). Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington. (CC BY 2.0).

From New Zealand. Traveling the weyward path trying to figure out how the world works. I study fossil plants, past climates, travel, walk, hike, read, take photos, struggle with computer graphics and plant trees.

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