Because native forests regenerated slowly, the Forest Service often preferred to completely clear the land and replant it with faster-growing exotic trees. This continued into the 1970s, when the Service was managing the West Coast beech forests. This 1973 photograph shows seedling eucalyptus trees planted in clearfelled sections of the Hochstetter forest on the West Coast.
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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
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AAQA 6500 col1267
Photograph by John Johns
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Very Interesting
Bayley Cressey-Reed (not verified)
12 March 2012
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