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
people at the field day viewed that work
first-hand and heard the Hansens discuss their
land use experiences and choices.
Everyone had their say, pondering the merits
and costs of farming marginal land or fencing it
for reversion or forestry; and discussing poplars
and what assistance the Council could provide.
Agricultural consultant John Stantiall had
prepared a cost-benefit analysis for those
attending and concluded, as had Niels, that the
cost of farming the
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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
Executive, Audit & Risk Committee agenda August 2021
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
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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
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