for him and his family, he exclaimed ``Ka Patea tatou'' - we have arrived at
Patea.
Since that arrival, the river has played an important part in the lifestyles of the Aotea people. The riverbanks
have provided the soil for the gardens of Rongorongo Tapairu called Hekeheke I papa, the karaka grove
called Papawhero, and the spring of life of Turi and Rongorongo called Parara-ki-te-Uru.
The source of the Patea River is on the mountain Rua Taranaki and is called Whakapou Karakia. Whakapou
page
C
A
R
R
IN
G
T
O
N
S
T
B
R
O
O
K
L
A
N
D
S
R
D
UPJOHN ST
C
A
R
R
IN
G
T
O
N
S
T
H
U
A
T
O
K
I S
T
DORALTO RD
FRANKLEY R
D G
L
E
N
P
A
R
K AVE
H
U
A
T
O
K
I
S
TBROIS ST
V
IC
T
O
R
IA
R
D
HUATOKI ST
B
A
R
R
E
T
T
R
D
KARAMEA ST
POPLAR GR
F
E
R
N
L
E
IG
H
S
T
OMATA RD
O
R
AN
G
A S
T
L
O
R
N
A
S
T
TA
VIS
Funding may be available for: Forestry (exotic and indigenous),
fencing for forestry and land retirement, poplar and willow poles.
Taranaki Regional Council acknowledges the co-funding of
STRESS by the MPI Hill Country Erosion Fund. Council can also
assist planholders with One Billion Trees grant applications which
includes forestry and reversion.
Contact: Land Management Team
www.trc.govt.nz/stress-erosion-scheme/
Riparian assistance
• Catchment Funding: Mitigate effects of freshwater
an exposed paddock, improving stock water supply, restoring a
degraded wetland.
Design - outlines design of the proposed solution e.g. spaced
poplar planting on the hillside; pair or close planting of trees up
the gully; fencing the streambank and revegetating it with
natives; re-aligning the vehicle track at a stable grade with better
drainage; de-stocking the sandblow and planting it with marram.
Examples of improvements are planting a two-tier
for a variety
of bird and fish species.
Ecological Features
Flora
The long history of the park can make it difficult to know which established native trees were remnants
of the original forest and which were planted. The most extensive native dominated remnant occurs at
the Brooklands end with mature kohekohe, puriri and tawa dominating. Large groves of the At Risk and
regionally distinctive king fern are present throughout the park as is an impressive
as poplar and willow,
and very unstable steep faces where pasture
growth and stock numbers are repeatedly
depleted by erosion.
The Council is aware of the limited economic
viability of many hill country farms under the
traditional meat and wool scenarios. It
advocates increasing the physical and financial
sustainability of properties by diversifying and
modifying farming practices to include such
activities as forestry on faces which are
uneconomic
retirement or
controlled grazing. The main one which
remains is that if the wrong kinds of tree
are planted, they can collapse and block
A row of poplars protects a regularly grazed
bank from being undercut.
the channel. So can the right kinds of tree,
if they aren’t felled and replaced before
growing too old. Some trees can spread
like weeds, forming dense thickets along
the banks. Careful choice of tree species,
and occasional
page
Submission
Number
Submitter Name
Care of Email Postal address
1. Tom P Waite tomtomnz@xtra.co.nz 406B St Aubyn Street, Moturoa, New Plymouth
2. Federated Farmers Dr Lisa Harper lharper@fedfarm.org.nz 15 Young Street, PO Box 422, New Plymouth
3. Roger Maxwell maxwell.rfh@xtra.co.nz 30 Ngapapa Street, Urenui 4349
4. Allen Pidwell pidwell@orcon.net.nz 19 Poplar grove, Whalers Gate, New Plymouth 4310
5. Point Board Riders Inc Maioha Kelly
caution:
• Weeping willow (cracks)
• Silver poplar (suckers)
• All non-sterile tree and shrub willows
(seed disperses downstream)
• Grey alder, black wattle, Chinese elm,
ash, walnut (seed disperses
downstream)
• Buddleia, blackberry, gorse (invades the
floodway)
SILVICULTURE
Any tree planted on a streambank
eventually grows old, and may collapse into
the channel. Risk of this happening can be
reduced by silviculture:
• Form-prune young trees, so that ground
cover