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5.2 Farm Site Effect
Authors: J P McLaren, G G WestPublication: NZIF Forestry Handbook, Volume Section 5 – Plantation silviculture, pp 2, Dec 2023
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: Plantation forests historically have been sited on areas with a previous cover of indigenous forest or scrub, and in steeper or more remote locations. Indeed, under the nowrepealed Town & Country Planning Act plantations were often excluded from land with the potential to grow good pasture, unless the trees were ancillary to farming (e.g. shelterbelts, small woodlots, or amenity plantings). In the late 1960s a change of attitude occurred, and tree planting on fertile farm sites became increasingly common. From 1993 to 2001 inclusive, some 49% of new plantings took place on "improved pasture" with 36% on "unimproved pasture".