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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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, …

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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 …

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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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    Flax/Harakeke – New Zealand’s Resource Curse

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2023

    The Musket Wars? Shortly after Europeans began operating in Aotearoa-New Zealand (c. 1807-1837), a series of conflicts among the indigenous Maori dramatically …

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    Sudden Stratospheric Warming Closed my Cafe

    by Mike Pole December 6, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 6, 2019

    The weather around Wanaka, and the broader Otago Lakes area of New Zealand has gone slightly biblical. New Zealand’s National Institute of …

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