AGM and Field Trip

Tāne’s Tree Trust AGM and Field Trip

24th - 25th November 2018

Sustained Yield Beech Management - Canterbury and West Coast

Itinerary:

Saturday 24th -

9am Drive from Christchurch airport to Oxford. Meet up with anyone joining in their own car

10am Drive to John Wardle’s property, a continuous cover beech and pine operation

1pm Drive to Greymouth with a stop at Mt White Bridge – view mountain beech forest

4.30pm AGM at The Ashley Hotel conference room, including presentations

Sunday 25th -

8am Drive to Ken Ferguson’s Gray Valley farm, a large sheep and beef farm with sustainably managed beech

- With stops at kahikatea/matai remnant stand, clear fell regeneration and thinning site and large wind throw recovery site

11am Leave for Reefton to visit NZSFP Mill site – timber and veneer operation

1.30pm Drive to Christchurch via Lewis Pass

4.30pm Arrive at Christchurch airport

NB: all times are approximate, except the meeting time in Oxford on Saturday at 10am

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We will be taking minivans from Christchurch. The cost is $100 per person (return trip).

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You can join us in your own car as well - please meet in Oxford at 10am.

Posted: 5 October 2018

From food to climate change

From food to climate change: why planting trees really counts

Click on the link below to read a fantastic opinion piece by Adele Fitzpatrick, chief executive of Trees That Count, on why planting trees matters.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/nz-life-leisure/107381988/from-food-to-climate-change-why-planting-trees-really-counts

incorporating research by Dr Jacqui Aimers and Tāne’s Tree Trust.

Posted: 27 September 2018

Forest canopy monitoring

Ian Brennan planted these kauri in 2011 using gorse as a nurse crop. They have recently been released from several years of blackberry growth. Ian took this photo while he was evaluating the use of his drone for forest canopy monitoring.

Posted: 24 September 2018

Our Forests Our Future

This photo was taken during a site visit by Michael Bergin and Clayton Wallwork to one of our demonstration sites - The Tuhautara Costal Park, Woodend, Canterbury. The land manager Greg Byrnes showed us around and said we can work with them to replant key cut over areas into native forest species.

Posted: 21 September 2018

Twenty-four years of trial and error …

Jaap and Sue van Dorsser, with help from their friends Ham and Jan Gifford, began clearing a nine hectare blackberry patch in 1994. See what it looks like 24 years later -

24 Years of Trial and Error from Ian Brennan on Vimeo.

Posted: 19 June 2018