New Zealand’s Most Hated Plant Is Rebuilding a Forest That Disappeared 170 Years Ago
In 1900, less than one percent of the native forest remained on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula. After decades of deforestation, livestock grazing, erosion, and invasive species, most experts believed the ancient forest ecosystem was gone for good.
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My mother had a green thumb which got me interested in gardening. Venezuela had established a reforestation program. I got twenty free seedlings for our good sized back yard. As we were planting them an official, I don’t recall rank or branch, told us to stop. It took a bit of convincing that we had become part of the reforestation effort.
Long Live Bureaucracy!
The Captain