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 Mahurangi Action | 19 Aug 2015 | Regional parks
Mahurangi Action phase-1 Te Muri submission As submitted 19 August 2015 Preface Mahurangi Action Incorporated (established 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi) is well known to be the initiator of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail concept. This unapologetic focus on the...
by Kim Jones | 18 Aug 2015 | Fauna
Whitebait Connection Event date 29 August 2015 Whitebait season is upon us, running, in most places, from 15 August to 30 November. For most New Zealanders, whitebait season is closely associated with the word fritter. Love ’em or hate ’em, the little white fish...
by Cimino | 31 Jul 2015 | Regional parks
It is only the first phase, but it might also prove to be the most important. When, in its dying days in 2010, the Auckland Regional Council purchased the $15 million, 383as published: 407 (hectares)-hectare Schischka farm, a large part of the motivation was to take...
by Megan Beard | 29 Jul 2015 | Paths and trails
A cloudless winter’s day in mid-July helped 20 Mahurangi locals get 750 plants in the ground on Te Whau Coastal Esplanade. The planting is the latest in a series of restoration activities achieved by volunteers in the six years since a strategic 2.7-hectare council...
by Cimino | 19 Jul 2015 | Part 6 Settlers and Services
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Part 6 Settlers and services Pages 234–238in printed edition Once veritable Rodmersham art gallery Had the...
by Cimino | 13 Jul 2015 | Regional parks
Invitation to join the Mahurangi Coastal Trail 100 There will only ever be one, Mahurangi Coastal Trail one hundred. In one hundred years’ time, the 100 visionaries who, on 1 November 2015, pledged to support the bid to make the Mahurangi Coastal Trail the Auckland...
by Cimino | 10 Jul 2015 | Regional parks
Need for coastal trail celebrity fundraiser 1-pager Update This proposed event was rescheduled, then reimagined following the spectacularly successful ‘Buy this beach’ campaign that has seen Te Awaroa Beach become part of Abel Tasman Nation Park. Long story short, the...
by Cimino | 9 Jul 2015 | Regional parks
Mahurangi Coastal Trail celebrity fundraiser The Auckland Regional Parks 50th anniversary, legacy project. That is what the Mahurangi Coastal Trail must become, if Aucklanders are to mark the first fifty years of their incomparable network of regional parks in a...
by Cimino | 8 Jul 2015 | Climate action economics
How Savage would have salvaged a survivable climate There is an alternative to you-first-no-you-first. Aotearoa, like pretty much every other country, is fearful of getting too far ahead of the pack in respect to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Much of the...
