Forests The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island by Mike Pole September 29, 2025 by Mike Pole September 29, 2025 “What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests Was there a Forest before Central Otago’s Kowhai Forest? by Mike Pole March 10, 2025 by Mike Pole March 10, 2025 When humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems … Read more 1 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests Dunedin’s Saddlebacks/Tieke and Yellowheads/Mopua by Mike Pole March 9, 2025 by Mike Pole March 9, 2025 Amateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests Green Island Bush – Divide and Conquer by Mike Pole March 7, 2025 by Mike Pole March 7, 2025 Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests The Lost Ecosystem of the Leith Swamp Forest, Dunedin by Mike Pole March 6, 2025 by Mike Pole March 6, 2025 One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests Dunedin’s Ghost-Forests in 1901 by Mike Pole February 10, 2025 by Mike Pole February 10, 2025 When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests The Lost Bush of South Dunedin by Mike Pole December 13, 2024 by Mike Pole December 13, 2024 We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a … Read more 1 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests Deans Bush–Pūtaringamotu and the Mystery of the Missing Tree Ferns by Mike Pole September 22, 2024 by Mike Pole September 22, 2024 Tree ferns are indicators of a consistently pretty wet climate. In New Zealand-Aotearoa, if you look closely (and not too closely if … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests The Immolation of Waimate Bush, Canterbury, New Zealand by Mike Pole July 24, 2024 by Mike Pole July 24, 2024 In the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forests The Lost Taieri/Taiari Bush, near Dunedin, New Zealand by Mike Pole June 6, 2024 by Mike Pole June 6, 2024 Leads to New Zealand’s ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
