Tags / Landcare Research
Field work goes ahead, whatever the weather
Everyone's favourite sort of field trip ... smack in the middle of a cold weather bomb, as “wind, snow, horizontal sleet and hail, wind, rain, and wind wind wind. Scientist Grant Norbury s Continue Reading...
National cycleway through Pureora Forest Park
Mark Smale of Landcare Research used (very) old maps of (even older) tramways to help plan the route. The Department of Conservation has been asked to assist with establishing the national cyclewa Continue Reading...
Volcanic Dunes of the Rangipo Desert
Mark Smale of Landcare Research says such dunes rare - one of only a few such ecosystems in the world. The wild and ever-changing Rangipo Desert is not really a desert because it has ample rain Continue Reading...
Heather beetle update
Simon Fowler notes beetles continued to spread over the 2009/210 summer, but not as far as predicted (or hoped). “Last year we predicted the area of beetle-spread would increase to a total area o Continue Reading...
Mapping current social knowledge around climate change
In the lead up to the NZ Climate Change Centre's December 6th 2010 workshop Degrees of Possibility: igniting social knowledge around climate change I have started gathering stories of how people Continue Reading...