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Tuatara: Volume 5, Issue 2, August 1953

Plate IIAerial photograph of podocarp forest — The top section gives the photograph number, G 1082/59, the altitude, 12,600 ft., focal length, 8¼, the information ‘Taupo Main Trunk, 22-3-45’, and the time on the clock which reads 2.25. The light area in the bottom right-hand corner (f) is back-country farm land. A brief description of the types present is as follows:— — P.5. Dense, small diameter, podocarp with a high percentage of totara. Average diameter 18-27 in. and log length 32 ft. 66 tre…

Plate IIAerial photograph of podocarp forest The top section gives the photograph number, G 1082/59, the altitude, 12,600 ft., focal length, 8¼, the information ‘Taupo Main Trunk, 22-3-45’, and the time on the clock which reads 2.25. The light area in the bottom right-hand corner (f) is back-country farm land. A brief description of the types present is as follows:— P.5. Dense, small diameter, podocarp with a high percentage of totara. Average diameter 18-27 in. and log length 32 ft. 66 trees per acre. P.6. Dense podocarps. Matai 40%, rimu 30%, totara 20%, balance kahikatea, tanekaha and miro. Logs of diameter 26-30 in., length 48 ft., 40 trees per acre, 40,000 ft. b.m. per acre. P.7. H1. Large diameter podocarps, 34 in. diameter, length 36 ft., 3 or 4 per acre. Tawa, rewarewa and hinau up to 10 per acre. 7,000 ft. b.m. podocarp and 1,000 ft. b.m. hardwoods per acre. P.2. Medium to large diameter podocarp 10-20 per acre, 90% rimu, diameters av. 30-32 in., medium log lengths 42-46 ft. d. Low scrub. Mainly Dracophyllum with small Coprosma and Hebe. g. Second growth of kamahi. Coprosma, Nothopanax. Original vegetation destroyed by fire many years ago, possibly during Maori settlement. M. Pure manuka, with various small broad-leaved spp. beneath, together with seedling and sapling podocarp. By courtesy Lands and Survey Department

Plate IIAerial photograph of podocarp forest
The top section gives the photograph number, G 1082/59, the altitude, 12,600 ft., focal length, 8¼, the information ‘Taupo Main Trunk, 22-3-45’, and the time on the clock which reads 2.25. The light area in the bottom right-hand corner (f) is back-country farm land. A brief description of the types present is as follows:—
P.5. Dense, small diameter, podocarp with a high percentage of totara. Average diameter 18-27 in. and log length 32 ft. 66 trees per acre.
P.6. Dense podocarps. Matai 40%, rimu 30%, totara 20%, balance kahikatea, tanekaha and miro. Logs of diameter 26-30 in., length 48 ft., 40 trees per acre, 40,000 ft. b.m. per acre.
P.7. H1. Large diameter podocarps, 34 in. diameter, length 36 ft., 3 or 4 per acre. Tawa, rewarewa and hinau up to 10 per acre. 7,000 ft. b.m. podocarp and 1,000 ft. b.m. hardwoods per acre.
P.2. Medium to large diameter podocarp 10-20 per acre, 90% rimu, diameters av. 30-32 in., medium log lengths 42-46 ft.
d. Low scrub. Mainly Dracophyllum with small Coprosma and Hebe.
g. Second growth of kamahi. Coprosma, Nothopanax. Original vegetation destroyed by fire many years ago, possibly during Maori settlement.
M. Pure manuka, with various small broad-leaved spp. beneath, together with seedling and sapling podocarp.
By courtesy Lands and Survey Department