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"Native Forest and the Rise of Preservation in New Zealand (1903–1913)"
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
While many saw the landscape transformation which followed the European settlement of New Zealand as firmly within the prevailing ‘doctrine of progress,’ this transformation was viewed with misgivings by others, who observed how deforestation led to erosion and floods, and advocated more prudent forest management.