Online soil information in projects like
growOTAGO is likely to become more common in
future.
More suggestions and sources
Adams, J., ed. Jubilee reminiscences: fifty
years of soil science memories. New Zealand
Society of Soil Science Occasional Publication 3.
Lincoln: New Zealand Society of Soil Science,
2002.
Tonkin, P. J. ‘A history of soil survey and
selected aspects of soil conservation in New
Zealand.’ New Zealand Soil News 55 (2007):
59–71; 102–115.
McCaskill, L. W. Hold this land: a history
of soil conservation in New Zealand.
Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1973.
Molloy, Les, compiler. Land alone endures:
land use and the role of research. Wellington:
DSIR, 1980.
Molloy, Les. Soils in the New Zealand
landscape: the living mantle. 2nd ed. Lincoln:
New Zealand Society of Soil Science, 1998.
Simmonds, H., and others. A brief
history of Soil Bureau. Wellington: DSIR,
1980.