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• COVER_SECTIONCover Section
  • ILLUSTRATIONCover caption: The long orange rays of a winter sunset play on the waters of Pauatahanui Inlet, just north of Welling...
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  • ILLUSTRATIONPhoto: Dave McNulty, Mount Cook National Park guide
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• CHAPTERStrangers in our midst
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• CHAPTERPAUATAHANUI THE MAKING OF A RESERVE
  • ILLUSTRATIONA pied stilt, delicately perched on one leg. Winter sunset, Pauatahanui Reserve. Photo: Terry Fitzgibbon
  • ILLUSTRATIONVolunteers erect the hide on the south basin of the reserve. Photo: Ron Freeston
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• CHAPTERHow To Help
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• CHAPTERWILD ANIMAL CONTROL: CHANGING EMPHASIS TOWARDS THE 1990s
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  • ILLUSTRATIONA striking demonstration of the effects of deer browsing, with the enclosure plot to the right in contrast with the s...
  • ILLUSTRATIONTahr in the Southern Alps. The Society believes that, while it is probably impossible to eradicate other introduced a...
• CHAPTERStoat in the dock
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  • ILLUSTRATIONA stoat killed in a correctly-set Fenn trap is killed almost instantly, usually by double fracture of the spine. The ...
  • ILLUSTRATIONOne of the problems in studying stoats is being able to observe them. This photograph is a rare example of one captur...
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• CHAPTERWhere have all the mistletoes gone?
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  • ILLUSTRATIONMilford Sound and Mitre Peak form a backdrop to an isolated silver beech tree with a large, flowering mistletoe (Pera...
  • ILLUSTRATIONKorthalsella salicornioides in fruit, on manuka, western shore of Lake Wairarapa, March 1984. Photo: C. C. Ogle.
  • ILLUSTRATIONAlepis flavida with flowers and ripe fruit on mountain beech, eastern shores of Lake Poteriteri, Fiordland National P...
  • ILLUSTRATIONIleostylus micranthus on mountain totara, Lake Poteriteri, January 1984. Photo: C. C. Ogle.
  • ILLUSTRATIONPeraxilla tetrapetala flowering on mountain beech, Chateau Tongariro, Tongariro National Park, December 1963. This mi...
  • ILLUSTRATIONKorthalsella lindsayi s.s. on Melicope simplex, Mataroa, Taihape, December 1984. Photo: C. C. Ogle.
  • ILLUSTRATIONTupeia antarctica in flower; growing on ribbonwood in Peel Forest. Photo: B. J. Molloy.
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• CHAPTERBOOM & BUST AGAIN? AOTUHIA
  • ILLUSTRATIONDevastating clearance on steep land which even feral goats struggle to climb. Such areas should have been left alone.
  • ILLUSTRATIONThese strongly regenerating shrublands and forest have been destroyed by the crusher (top centre) since this photo wa...
• CHAPTERNOTHING OF NOTE IN NORTH TARANAKI?
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Tangarakau River flows through North Taranaki’s Waitaanga State Forest, a large part of which has a prospecting l...
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• CHAPTERA fair deal for the forests of Abut Head
  • ILLUSTRATIONThe Government holds the key to reserving Abut Head, one of the most important stretches of privately-owned coastline...
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• CHAPTERNew Zealand High Country '86
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• CHAPTERTHE WEKA VICTIM OR VILLIAN
  • ILLUSTRATIONMale weka feeding chicks Photo: P. Daniel
  • ILLUSTRATIONA male little spotted kiwi in an aggressive pose Photo: P. Daniel
• CHAPTER...BUT WHAT RISK CAN WE ACCEPT?
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• CHAPTERFOUND the elusive Fiji petrel
  • ILLUSTRATIONLast recorded being seen in 1855, the Fiji petrel was re-discovered last year. Photo: D. Watling
• CHAPTERPERSONALITY
  • CHAPTERBuying time and space for the kokako
    • ILLUSTRATIONPat and Arthur Cowan with Sir Edmund Hillary on Mt Rangitoto. Photo: Commission for the Environment
    • ILLUSTRATIONThe Cowan home, surrounded by forest. Photo: G. Hutching
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• CHAPTERSociety's Lodges and Houses
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• CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
  • CHAPTERHeritage Department at the Crossroads
  • CHAPTERKauris win temporary reprieve
  • CHAPTERAhuriri protection still sought
  • CHAPTERPark to be or not to be?
  • CHAPTERFar north reserves
  • CHAPTERNotable and Historic Trees
• CHAPTERROYAL FOREST & BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC.
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• CHAPTERThe Junior Section
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  • CHAPTERQuest
    • ILLUSTRATIONThis hedgehog was painted by Dahlia Prokop, a student illustrator from Canada who is visiting New Zealand for six mon...
  • CHAPTERThe Gardener's Friend
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    • ILLUSTRATIONCurling up into a ball of prickles (top left) protects the hedgehog from most would-be predators.
    • ILLUSTRATIONEach spine has alternating bands of brown and white, usually 3 of each (left). This mottled colouring acts as a camou...
    • ILLUSTRATIONAlthough you may see hedgehog casualties on the road, it is only a tiny proportion of the total number of hedgehogs t...
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• CHAPTERBulletin
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  • CHAPTERAnnual General Meeting
  • CHAPTEROn the move
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  • CHAPTERSummer Camp
  • CHAPTERCamera wanted
  • CHAPTERThe best legacy
  • CHAPTERCorrection
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  • ILLUSTRATIONPhoto: Barney Brewster Art direction: Peter Lusk
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