Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Matai- vanquished giant of New Zealand’s dry forests?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …
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Rainforest in Georgia? (as in Georgistan, Black Sea, by the way, not as in ‘Good-Old-Boys’). I saw it marked on a Wikipedia map and …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Canary Islands – ‘Last’ Rainforest in Europe (?)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe fossils are clear – just a few million years ago Europe was covered in broad-leaved, evergreen forest. There were palm trees …
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In Poland there are any number of subjects that might make good postcards, Polish girls perhaps. But decaying logs? In the far …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Discovering the ‘Bridge of Stone’ – the ancient route over the Kawarau River, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PolePart way along the Kawarau River between Cromwell and Queenstown (Central Otago, New Zealand) is a feature known to Maori as ‘Whatatorere’ (Kaumatua …
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When an entire landscape loses its forests, it can be so complete that most of us would have no comprehension of what …
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When I was growing up in Central Otago (New Zealand) graywacke was a bane of my life, and certainly of my Dad’s …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Thin Ice? Climate change in Alexandra and skating on the Manorburn Dam
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleGrowing up in Alexandra (Central Otago, New Zealand) in the early 1970s it was the family thing to go ice skating on …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Attack of the Forest-Killing Fungi (Kauri and the Elm Decline)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …
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