by Cimino | 16 Aug 2018 | Motorway, Open-ground
In 2004, $3 million over 5 years sounded like all Mahurangi’s Christmases had come at once. But a back-of-a-seed-packet calculation strongly suggested that the $3 million the former Auckland Regional Council had budgeted would barely touch the sides, when it came time...
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 | 20 Jan 2014 | Motorway, Open-ground
In a straight line, the stream would run from Mahurangi to Palmerston North. That is, if all the streams in the Mahurangi catchment were laid end-to-end, and assuming, of course, that there was sufficient head to cause this hypothetical stream to run. Then if this...
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...
