by Cimino | 28 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Raising plants open-ground can seem counterintuitive. It is easy to imagine that the best start in life a plant can have is to be lovingly raised in a pot in a nursery, and then carefully planted. But for foresters, raising plants in pots is downright …...
by Cimino | 19 Oct 2008 | Establishment trials
Corrected 25 March 2012 In February 2007, a $81.5 million fund was established to protect Lake Taupō. The strategy was to head off the sort of degradation that Rotorua has been fighting at enormous expense for three decades, and will probably be fighting for at least...
by Cimino | 12 Oct 2008 | Sedimentation
It took some longer than it did others. At the community discussion of the Mahurangi Action Plan on 10 September, Warkworth resident Jefferson Chapple challenged the gathering to think of sediment as a resource. Some believed they were already thinking of sediment as...
by Cimino | 10 Sep 2008 | Action plan planning
It will be just one month shy of four years. The last public Mahurangi Action Plan discussion, with Auckland Regional Council involvement, took place on October 2004—and also at the Old Masonic Hall. There was an intervening gathering, in February 2005, but with no...
by Cimino | 20 Aug 2008 | Obituary
I was not relishing the phone call; I was acutely aware that all I had to offer was my newfound enthusiasm for an alternative method of raising indigenous plants, whereas Arthur Dunn was the singular local expert on the subject. Out of respect for his...
by Cimino | 7 Aug 2008 | Riparian planting
This Sunday it is Shelley Trotter’s turn to receive some help with her massive riparian retirement programme. It’s the second of two Mahurangi Action Plan community planting days, the first was at Mike Edwards’ property, immediately downstream from Hepburn Creek. The...
by Cimino | 27 Jul 2008 | Action plan planning, Brainstorming breakfasts
Friday’s breakfast will preview the Auckland Regional Council’s draft review of the Mahurangi Action Plan. This is set to be the best attended breakfast since the 11 July discussion of Settlements of the Future. Mahurangi Action Plan project leader Kim Morresey,...
by Cimino | 16 Jul 2008 | Development design guide
It made little impact at Friday’s breakfast. But that was hardly surprising, given the privilege of being the first residents to preview a provocative video that proposes Rodney takes a leaf out of the Lake District’s book and determinedly protect the beauty of the...
by Cimino | 9 Jul 2008 | Establishment trials
Dr David Bergin is well underway laying out the second and third open-ground trial sites, at Silverdale, using another mile of string and three of his adult and late teens children. The site beside Sandspit Road is textbook—imminently accessible and sufficiently large...
by Cimino | 7 Jul 2008 | Development design guide
The suggestion came from Rodney District Council’s urban designer, Andrew Trevelyan: It might be good at some stage to have a round table discussion with the team over a breakfast—topic being, ‘What will our future settlements look like?’ Of course have a very clear...
