Cut back to the late 1970s – I was a schoolboy and had found my way into the Burnside Marl Pit, Dunedin …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Flooded Forests: sea-level rise in the Haast, West Coast, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI own a little patch of bush in the Haast, on the wet, West Coast of New Zealand. It was selectively logged …
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The fern Cladophlebis is probably the single-most common plant fossil in the New Zealand Jurassic. It’s present in virtually every plant fossil …
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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 …