Forests

When humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems …

Amateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts …

Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the …

One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, …

When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …

We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a …

Tree ferns are indicators of a consistently pretty wet climate. In New Zealand-Aotearoa, if you look closely (and not too closely if …

In the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …

Leads to New Zealand’s  ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I …

In the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …