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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
- TABLE_OF_CONTENTSIN THIS ISSUE
- CHAPTERConserving wetlands
- CHAPTERThe scenic splendour of the Oparara
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Moria Gate (north side). This is the uppermost (and prettiest) of the three limestone arches of the Oparara, a...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe glorious view north over the upper Oparara, from the saddle road. The DSIR has recommended that all the unlogged ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: This area of native forest has been clearfelled ready for burning and planting in pines. An adjoining area was ...
- ILLUSTRATIONFar left: The kidney fern is just one of the many different plant species that await discovery by botanists in the di...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Powelliphanta annectens, the carnivorous giant land snail, is confined to only a few colonies in the Oparara an...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: This unusual waterfall, in the middle of the Oparara Arch, occurs where water flows through a crack in the lim...
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- CHAPTERHoliday house
- CHAPTERSupplements to issue
- CHAPTERBOOKS
- CHAPTERKAIMAUMAU—a successful campaign to protect a forgotten habitat
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Kaimaumau Crown land block (4635 ha), showing the small size of the initial proposed swamp reserve of 100 ha and ...
- ILLUSTRATIONC. C. Ogle photo Kaimaumau Swamp, looking north-east over the system of parallel sand dunes, ridges, and wetlands to ...
- ILLUSTRATIONSwamp drainage near Kaimaumau. Formerly widespread, swamps and peat gumlands are today becoming scarce because of far...
- ILLUSTRATIONAustralasian bittern occur throughout the Kaimaumau Swamp together with large numbers of fernbird. Bittern favour lar...
- ILLUSTRATIONG. D. McSweeney photo The rare fern Cyclosorus interruptus. Kaimaumau is the New Zealand stronghold for this species.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe black mudfish (Neochanna diversus) occurs only in swamps north from Lake Taupo. Its habitat has been extensively ...
- ILLUSTRATIONG. D. McSweeney photo Marsh fern (Thelypteris confluens). Kaimaumau supports one of the most significant populations ...
- CHAPTERThe Hollyford experience
- ILLUSTRATIONThe sea entrance to the Hollyford River, the graveyard of many boats approaching Jamestown in the 1870s.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe route taken from Hollyford road end to Martins Bay Lodge.
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: The track between Hollyford road end and Hidden Falls.
- ILLUSTRATIONUpper middle: Jet-boating down Lake McKerrow under the May Hills to the Darran Mountains chain.
- ILLUSTRATIONLower middle: Historic Jamestown beach. The forest now covers the deserted town site just to the right of the jetboats.
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom: Martins Bay. Blue gums now mark the site of the McKenzie homestead. Photos by L. L. Maddever.
- CHAPTERMoths of the Awarua Bay area
- ILLUSTRATIONLythria catapyrrha is a diurnal geometrid moth, shown here resting on a gentian flower growing on Tiwai Peninsula.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe sprawling Pimelea plants at Tiwai Peninsula are home to this pretty diurnal geometrid, Lythria perornata.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe tiny golden Palaeomicra caustica belongs to an ancient family of moths that have jaws. The species breeds on live...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe shrub land of the Awarua bog is dominated by Dracophyllum and wire-rush. The Tiwai smelter chimney is in the dist...
- ILLUSTRATIONTiwai Peninsula also has a flourishing array of shrubs. This part is dominated by rigid shrubs of Olearia, Hymenanthe...
- ILLUSTRATIONDasyuris partheniata is a fastflying diurnal geometrid that breeds on clumps of Aciphylla on Tiwai Peninsula.
- ILLUSTRATIONNotoreas synclinalis. This striking species is often seen flying over the wire-rush bogs.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Awarua Bay area, showing the juxtaposition of the bog land of the Awarua Plain and the sandy shrub land of the Ti...
- CHAPTERWe can fight old man's beard — and win
- ILLUSTRATIONSeedling plants of old man's beard can be recognised and pulled out.
- ILLUSTRATIONMature stems have pale, loose bark and put out roots when layered on the ground.
- ILLUSTRATIONOld man's beard has a firm hold on bush at the northern end of the Manawatu Gorge.
- ILLUSTRATIONOld man's beard on a barberry hedge at Ohaupo, March 1983.
- ILLUSTRATIONSilky plumes on fresh seed heads of old man’s beard. Photos by C. S. Butcher.
- CHAPTEROBITUARY
- CHAPTERP. A. Prichard
- ILLUSTRATIONMr Pritchard.
- CHAPTERP. A. Prichard
- CHAPTERseed production in podocarp trees
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 1: An upturned rimu shoottip in which the ovule is developing. (Photographed in December.)
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 3: A rimu ovule on an upturned shoot-tip. The green epimatium still surrounds the darker ovule, which can be gli...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 2: A young ovule of rimu developing on the inner surface of the uppermost leaf (the carpidium) of an upturned sh...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 4: A rimu ovule close to fertilisation time. The ovule protrudes from the cup-like epimatium, and the sealed mic...
- ILLUSTRATIONFig. 5: A ripe rimu fruit. The dark glossy seed with the sealed micropyle lips towards the top is set in a red, flesh...
- CHAPTERSociety author prize winner in book award
- CHAPTERPacific Island conservation
- CHAPTERWildlife Holidays
- CHAPTERWildlife reserves in Maniototo wetlands are urgently needed
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Maniototo wetlands from the air in winter. The regular flooding replenishes oxbows and lagoons adjacent to the ri...
- ILLUSTRATIONManiototo wetlands in midsummer. The wetlands are highly productive and support a variety of water birds, especially ...
- ILLUSTRATIONN. R. N. Watson photo A low-lying area adjacent to the river at present classified as plantation reserve. Moves to re...
- ILLUSTRATIONM. F. M. Wright photo An angler with a limit bag of brown trout. The Maniototo wetlands and the upper Taieri River su...
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- CHAPTERWays sought to deal with bush fires in summer
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Tree ferns that are partly protected from a fire's main heat by a track may survive. The central fronds of thi...
- ILLUSTRATIONBelow: Though this flax is badly burnt, it will survive. In many burnt areas this plant provides the first green in a...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop right: After 3 days of burning fire at Eastbourne became a grave threat as it swept closer to houses.
- ILLUSTRATIONMiddle right: The disheartening sight of blackened gorse trunks brings the realisation that the regeneration process ...
- ILLUSTRATIONBottom right: Fire burnt quickly through the gorse on the distant hill and on the right. Once native vegetation, even...
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- CHAPTERMARSHALL PRINTS
- ILLUSTRATIONZ1 CRESTED GREBE
- ILLUSTRATIONZ3 PIED STILT
- ILLUSTRATIONZ4 WELCOME SWALLOW
- ILLUSTRATIONZ2 SONG THRUSH
- ILLUSTRATIONZ5 STITCH BIRD
- CHAPTERFINE ART REPRODUCTIONS
- ILLUSTRATIONZ6 SADDLEBACK
- ILLUSTRATIONZ7 BELLBIRD
- ILLUSTRATIONZ9 MOREPORK
- ILLUSTRATIONZ8 ROYAL ALBATROSS
- ILLUSTRATIONZ10 FALCON
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- CHAPTERThe Junior Section
- CHAPTERBIRDS I HAVE MET
- CHAPTERNew Zealand plants
- CHAPTERROYAL FOREST AND BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC.
- CHAPTERSOCIETY'S LODGES AND HOUSES
- ILLUSTRATIONBUSHY PARK Kai Iwi
- CHAPTERGallery of New Zealand flora
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