When Europeans began arriving in the Canterbury region in the early 1800s, most of the swamp forest – dominated by matai, totara and kahikatea (white pine) – that covered much of the Canterbury Plains in previous centuries was gone. It is thought that it had been destroyed by a great fire that swept across the plains during the moa hunter period, leaving only a scattered bush remnants. (more…)
June 21, 2010
The place of an echo: Pūtaringamotu (Deans Bush)
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: Brian Molloy, Canterbury earthquake, Christchurch, conservationists, David Young, Dean's Bush, Deans Homestead, Environmental History, Geoffrey Rice, Harry Ell, Homebush, Jane Deans, John Deans, kahikatea, Leonard Cockayne, milling, New Zealand, Ngai Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Pūtaringamotu, Riccarton, Riccarton Bush, Riccarton House, Scotland, September 4 earthquake, settlers, Stephen Tweedy, William Dean |1 Comment
January 6, 2011
Protest on the landscape – Wallaceville, Upper Hutt
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: 1080, beech tree, conservationists, Department of Conservation, hunters, mustelids, pesticide, pests, possums, rats, sodium fluoroacetate, Tararua Ranges, Totara Park, Upper Hutt, Wallaceville, woolshed |Leave a Comment
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