Pureora Forest Park

	Pureora Forest Park
	Geographical location
Coordinates	38 ° 38 ′ S , 175 ° 35 ′ E Coordinates: 38 ° 38 ′ S , 175 ° 35 ′ E
Country :	New Zealand
Region (s) :	Manawatu-Wanganui , Waikato
Location:	west to northwest of Lake Taupo
	Protected area
Protected area type:	Forest Park
Founded:	1978
Precursor:	Pureora State Forest
	expansion
Number of areas:	8th
Area :	780 km²
Mountains :	Hauhungaroa Range , Rangitoto Range
Rivers :	Waipapa River , Waihaha River , Maramataha River
	The Office Department of Conservation
Office:	Te Kuiti Office; 78 Taupiri Street ; Te Kuiti 3910
	Photography from Forest Park
	; Stream in the Pureora Forest Park

The Pureora Forest Park is a protected forest in the Waikato and Manawatu-Wanganui regions , on the North Island of New Zealand . The park is subordinate to the Department of Conservation .

geography

The Pureora Forest Park is located west to northwest of Lake Taupo , in parts of the mountain range of the Hauhungaroa Range and further north of the Rangitoto Range . The park, which consists of eight individual areas, has a total area of 78,000 hectares and extends over a distance of almost 70 km in a north-south direction. The two largest individual areas by far are 22 km long and 12 km wide, and the southernmost of the two is 45 km long and 28 km wide. Taupo , the next largest city, is around 35 km east of the Forest Park and Te Kuiti , where the responsible office of the Department of Conservation is located, is around 25 km west of the northern part of the park.

The nature reserve can be reached via the New Zealand State Highway 30 , which runs from Te Kuiti between the northern and southern parts of the park, the New Zealand State Highway 32 , which passes east of the southern part of the park when coming from the north, and the New Zealand State Highway 41 , which , coming west of Taumarunui , touches the southernmost part of the park.

history

When New Zealand became a colony of the British Empire in 1840 , the country still had 2/3 of its area of pristine forest. In the following 140 years a steadily growing timber industry developed in the country, which in 1946 did not stop at the Pureora Forest , which was one of the last natural forests at the time, and was released for logging.

After a seminar held by the then New Zealand Forest Service on the management of the Pureora Forest , the decision was made in 1978 to found the Pureora Forest Park . But the logging continued. The previous discussion among scientists, forest managers, environmentalists and an interested public finally led to a rethink in politics in the early 1980s regarding the protection of New Zealand's forests. With the dissolution of the New Zealand Forest Service in 1987 and the establishment of the Department of Conservation on the basis of the Conservation Act 1987 , the Pureora Forest Park , which was formerly also known as Pureora Conservation Park , was placed under nature protection and taken into the care of Department of Conservation placed.

The Pureora Forest Park was from the territories of Pureora State Forest , the Tihoi State Forest , the Waituhi State Forest , the Hurakia State Forest , the Taringamotu State Forest and Wharepuhunga State Forest formed.

literature

New Zealand Touring Atlas . 5th edition. Hema Maps , Brisbane 2015, ISBN 978-1-877302-92-3 (English).

Web links

Commons : Pureora Forest Park - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Pureora Forest Park . (PDF; 581 kB)Department of Conservation, February 2007, archived from the original onOctober 15, 2008; accessed on February 22, 2020(English, original website no longer available).

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b New Zealand Touring Atlas . 2015, p. Map 12, Map 18, Map 19 .
↑ Pureora Forest Park . (PDF; 581 kB) Department of Conservation , February 2007, archived from the original on October 15, 2008 ; accessed on February 22, 2020 (English, original website no longer available).
↑ Coordinates and longitudes were determined using Goggle Earth Pro Version 7.3.2.5776 on February 22, 2020
↑ Historic Pureora Forest Park . Department of Conservation , accessed February 22, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b M. C. Smale , AS Holzapfel: Ecology and Management of Pureora Forest Park . Department of Conservation , 2000, ISSN 1171-9834 , p. 1 f . (English, online [PDF; 375 kB ; accessed on February 22, 2020]).

[Hema_Maps_S12_18_19-1] A ^b New Zealand Touring Atlas . 2015, p. Map 12, Map 18, Map 19 .

[DOC_Flyer-2] Pureora Forest Park . (PDF; 581 kB) Department of Conservation , February 2007, archived from the original on October 15, 2008 ; accessed on February 22, 2020 (English, original website no longer available).

[Google_Earth-3] Coordinates and longitudes were determined using Goggle Earth Pro Version 7.3.2.5776 on February 22, 2020

[DOC_History-4] Historic Pureora Forest Park . Department of Conservation , accessed February 22, 2020 .

[Smale_Holzapfel_2000_S1f-5] M. C. Smale , AS Holzapfel: Ecology and Management of Pureora Forest Park . Department of Conservation , 2000, ISSN 1171-9834 , p. 1 f . (English, online [PDF; 375 kB ; accessed on February 22, 2020]).