posted on 2024-06-21, 04:09authored byOur Land and Water National Science Challenge
This handout provides a high-level outline of the management plan and economics to use pines as a nurse crop to establish natives. An indicative comparison is provided with planting natives, pines as production forestry, and sheep and beef farming.
The government is currently consulting on a number of changes to the ETS (including transitional forestry) and has a research program underway to review the yield tables used to determine sequestration of natives (currently based on Manuka/Kanuka dominated scrub). This paper is based on on current legislation as at August 2023.
Funding
Funded by the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment's Our Land and Water National Science Challenge (Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai) as part of project Rural Professionals Fund 2022–23