We set up ‘camp’ at the base of Mongolia’s ‘White Doors’ — a gap in a massive outcrop of vertically-tilted limestone. ‘Camp’ …
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re-wilding/walking
Sunday School stole my heritage – Bears, Baa-lambs, and Salmon
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleDon’t get me wrong – Christian virtues (the teachings of JC) are admirable. I was brought-up going to ‘Sunday School’ and I …
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There was a time when I threatened myself to start teaching the ecology of Middle-earth. I helped take a couple of trips …
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New Zealand Geology
The Marshall Paraconformity – a 30 year geological debate in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleCut back to the late 1970s – I was a schoolboy and had found my way into the Burnside Marl Pit, Dunedin …
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ClimateForests
Flooded Forests: sea-level rise in the Haast, West Coast, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI own a little patch of bush in the Haast, on the wet, West Coast of New Zealand. It was selectively logged …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Cladophlebis – New Zealand’s Mesozoic Weed
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe fern Cladophlebis is probably the single-most common plant fossil in the New Zealand Jurassic. It’s present in virtually every plant fossil …
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Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …
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Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …
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Forestsre-wilding/walking
Matai- vanquished giant of New Zealand’s dry forests?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …
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Rainforest in Georgia? (as in Georgistan, Black Sea, by the way, not as in ‘Good-Old-Boys’). I saw it marked on a Wikipedia map and …