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Timber cruising and other forestry stories
Authors: Denis HarrisPublication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2009, Issue N.Z.J.For. 54(4) 2010, pp 44-45, Jan 2010
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: For almost 70 years the NZ Forest Service went about its business supporting a rapidly growing forest industry in New Zealand. Over the same period the transformation of the industry was immense; strongly founded at the outset in the country’s natural forests, in less than one lifetime the entire industry shifted its reliance from a menagerie of fine temperate hardwood and softwood (mostly podocarps) species to almost complete reliance on only 1-2 introduced species grown in often vast plantations.