HIGH COUNTRY TREE
Search For Ideal Exotic Increased public awareness of the need for forest conservation was already reflected in the condition of some protection forests, the director of the forest and range experiment station of the Forest Service (Mr J. T. Holloway) told 120 members of the Canterbury branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society on Saturday. Mr Holloway spoke to the members who were on a field trip, in a beech forest near Thomas stream, Craigieburn. He dealt with problems of forest care, and the value of field research.
No native tree could cope with established erosion, he said. Speaking of his search for an ideal pioneer exotic to reforest the high country, he said he had found that the Austrian green alder (Alnus viridis) was the most suitable. It could both mobilise phosphate and fix atmospheric nitrogen.
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Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 22
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