Abstract
Settlement quickly reduced the area of forest of New Zealand. It is a good example of man's recent removal of forest. The study concentrates on the removal of forest in the south of South Island. Polynesian and European effects are compared. It was more forested in 750 AD than in 1840, and today forest is now mainly in the mountains. Maps show forest in the Catlin District of the south-west in 1860, 1944 and 1984. At various times it was removed for settlement programmes for returned soldiers, by scrub cutters, by fire, and as a result of "marginal land moneys'. -D.J.Davis
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 73-85 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Journal | Erde |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1990 |