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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.
The author’s own research into the early years of European settlement plots an evolving cultural engagement with the indigenous environment, and in particular with forest or ‘bush,’ which ran parallel with its extensive replacement by agroecosystems.