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In 1890 when the kauri timber industry threatened to wipe out Northland kauri forest, 3.34 hectares were set aside by the government, and James Trounson, an early settler, added 386 hectares.
A sawyer's clearing in a forest of kauri trees on the banks of the Kaipara River, 1845