- The "European Settlers" found many a thing grew well over here. One that has been to EnZeds advantage is the tree Pinus Radiata. It reaches maturity in about 30 years in the centre of our North Island.
- It is due to the "Volcanic Soil". Layer after layer deposited by the Volcanoes around this part. No molten lava. Our Volcanoes chuck out volcanic ash and rocks, stones and ash, and very liquid mud.
- So............the photo is from within a forestry plantation. Some land clear after harvesting, native brush and ferns growing there, and trees in the background. And a sample of the land around the Western Bay of Plenty in New Zealand.
- Volcanic lands in NZ mean you're forever going up and down, and up and down, and up and down (Tauranga and Auckland).
Where as in Wellington you are only ever going up Up UP, or DOWN Down down
I Choose Wellington!!!
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Living on top of a major, often active earthquake fault line and all -
Guess is all about what you grow up with!
No snakes, poisonous spiders*, scorpions, before Humans = no indigenous mammals of any sort besides some harmless wee bats, that went "eeep" at a high frequency.
( well, just the Katipo which habitates sand dunes -and I don't)
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I share your love of forests. In Oregon we have a large proportion of the state covered with old growth and planted forests. We have lots of tree farms (for paper) out in eastern OR in the high desert. Here is a map of our protected forests. http://www.wsrp.org/EventBack.aspx?guid=2d01bff8-be42-418e-ad14-06096ac633cf
NZ sounds lovely. I would love to visit, but finances prevent.
We are battling the pine beetle here in Canada. Especially British Columbia and Alberta. To see the swaths taken out as they cut away the affected trees is horrible. To see the brown dead trees killed by the beetles is even worse. They turn orange and then they go an ash gray colour. Sad.
Right down the road from my brother's rafting center is a huge forestry company. They go 24 hours a day and it's hard to sleep in my little trailer as the logging trucks pull around the corner and continue on their way - all - night - long.
Don´t you have Kakapoes too? Propz Pilgrim
Priscilla,
the forests in Oregon are so wonderful - trees with naturally straight trunks. The few parts of completely natural bush near me have paths and tracks made - otherwise it would be near impossible for a human to get through. (And I so, so understand the financial issues to travelling)
Aims,
what a nasty beetle that is attacking your indigenous trees. Pines here are an introduced species.
Your description of the noise from the logging trucks reminds me of visits to Dad's parents. They lived near the top of a road that had NZs sole sugar refinery at the bottom. Dad's Father (my Poppa)had worked there, he was an Electrician.
The trucks would grind up the steep hill over and over again.
When the refinery was first built, down on the harbour, the products were shipped out. All change by the 1970s.
Pilgrim,
Yes to Kakapos. Hooray - the Dept of Conservation have reported that this past summer was a bumper breeding season - at least 30 chicks!
Huge progress for our most threatened bird, the world's largest parrot. Flightless, solitary and nocturnal. Thank you, thank you am working towards a post about it.
Hope you are warm and happy in the Paris Summer
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i choose wellington, too, mt victoria to be precise!
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