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...
by Cimino | 8 Jun 2012 | Establishment trials
Centennial past time for 2nd royal commission on forestry Originally written for, and published in, the August 2012 edition of Indigena, the quarterly journal of the Indigenous Forest Section of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association There’s a strong argument for...
by Cimino | 31 May 2012 | Establishment trials
Twenty thousand down, and about as many again to go. This week field technician Michael Bergin remeasured two indigenous plants trial blocks in the Weiti catchment and started in on the trials in Sandspit Road. The trials are a world first in Aotearoa. They compare...
by Bergin et al | 23 Mar 2012 | Establishment trials
Cimino Cole Mahurangi Action Philip Smith Taupō Native Plant Nursery Jaap van Dorsser Nursery consultant David Bergin Scion Research 22–23 March 2012 Introduction to the open-ground method A considerable proportion of the pastoral land in Aotearoa, particularly...
