Discover a kauri forest : An interpretation guide : Information and guidelines aimed towards the successful interpretation of the Northland kauri forests : A dissertation compiled in accordance with the regulations for the completion of the Diploma of Parks and Recreation (Park Ranger option), Lincoln College, 1984

Abstract

The Northland Kauri Forests represent an important part of New Zealand's primeval state. Only 7455 hectares, this resource is confined mainly to scattered uplands along the western edge of the North Auckland Peninsula and to remote areas of the Coromandel Peninsula and Great Barrier Island. Of this resource, 6513 hectares is administered by the New Zealand Forest Service.

Northland, therefore, is one of the prime areas with forest containing the archaic vegetative element of kauri. Its Kauri Forests form a marked contrast to other public reserves in the region and are a major feature of Northland's landscape.

This Dissertation will concentrate on the mature Kauri Forest resource in Northland as an area rich for Interpretation. Several factors lead toward the validity of this proposal. These factors will be considered in detail and include the fact that the Northland region is an area of immediate closeness to a major centre containing nearly half of the total population of New Zealand.