Alison and John Smithies are sitting in front of wilding trees near Ōhau, where a few years previously there had been only tussock. Wilding trees spread from established plantations by wind-blown seed and establish themselves in open country or native forests. Their spread into tussock grasslands in the South Island is a major concern. In the Ōhau region the most common wilding trees are Pinus contorta and Pinus ponderosa.
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Otago Daily Times
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9 September 2006, p. 19
Photograph by David Bruce
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