by Cimino | 24 Aug 2015 | Establishment trials
The Mahurangi trials, the Silverdale trials, and then those at Taupō, all said the same thing. Open-ground-raised indigenous plants, in all those trials, have been found to establish every bit as well as the same species—including mānuka—produced at many times the...
by Cimino | 20 Aug 2014 | Farm-Forestry Trail
Developed from report to the 2014 Tane’s Tree Trust annual general meeting With the help of 80 school and college pupils, the Mahurangi Farm-Forestry Trail has reached a milestone. Conceived just two years ago, the mile-long trail is the very happy marriage, and...
by Cimino | 27 Jun 2014 | Farm-Forestry Trail
Written for Tāne’s Tree Trust Newsletter Such have been the negative political consequences of doing so. It wasn’t until in his final four-year term that President Barack Obama felt he could talk openly about addressing anthropogenic global warming. Similarly, it...
by Cimino | 8 Dec 2013 | Farm-Forestry Trail
Forty farm plans completed and 120 kilometres of riparian margin protected. From those figures, it would be easy to imagine that Mahurangi catchment’s elevated sediment accumulation rate was well on its way to being comprehensively addressed. Assuming that the...
by Cimino | 17 Feb 2013 | Farm-Forestry Trail
Corrected 24 February 2013 It may be because the landscape resembles a South Seas Lake District. Or it may simply be a universal urge, but locals have long dreamed and talked of creating a network of trails in the harbourscape of outstanding natural beauty that is the...
by Cimino | 12 Oct 2012 | Establishment trials
In an ideal world, the Mahurangi Magazine would stick to its knitting. It could focus on the environment of the Mahurangi catchment, particularly the harbour’s elevated sediment accumulation rate. In this ideal world, the global, big picture issue of anthropogenic...
