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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    The Hollow Tree Stumps at Curio Bay

    by Mike Pole May 21, 2025
    by Mike Pole May 21, 2025

    A hollow tree stump at the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, New Zealand. The inside of the stump (the wood is …

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  • 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” …

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  • New Zealand History

    Moa ate kōwhai

    by Mike Pole January 29, 2024
    by Mike Pole January 29, 2024

    A little over 700 years ago, humans finally discovered the last habitable place on Earth, Aotearoa-New Zealand (Wilmshurst et al., 2011; Mulrooney …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFireForests

    How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia

    by Mike Pole January 29, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 29, 2020

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

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFireForests

    Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?

    by Mike Pole January 18, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 18, 2020

    “This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …

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    When New Zealand was a Burning Land

    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020

    Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFire

    Australia’s Black Thursday Fires 1851 – how big and why?

    by Mike Pole January 11, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 11, 2020

    Have you noticed? Despite Australia’s on-going fire disaster, there are no shortage of reports telling us to … relax – it’s nothing …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFire

    Australia – both Greening and Burning?

    by Mike Pole November 16, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 16, 2019

    Once again, the south east of Australia has had huge fires. But how can this be? Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising, …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFire

    How You Can Predict Bushfires in Australia – Four Days Out

    by Mike Pole November 11, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 11, 2019

    Tomorrow, Tuesday Nov 12, 2019 is looking very bad for south-east Australia (especially New South Wales, but also parts of Queensland, Victoria …

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  • Travel stories

    Australia’s Bunya Mountains and Alternate World Histories

    by Mike Pole August 26, 2018
    by Mike Pole August 26, 2018

    Could the Bunya Mountains be the one place to turn your preconceptions of human nature on its head? *** I recently finished …

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