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Resource Category: Planting Guide
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101 tips to avoid costly mistakes
Wayne O’Keefe back to share crucial insights and practical tips on the planning, planting and protection phases of reforestation: understanding your site’s specific conditions and weed pressures is crucial before planting begins, and why selecting the right species in the right place with the right protection makes all the difference long-term.
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Riparian buffer design
NIWA’s Riparian Buffers resource explains how vegetated strips of native grasses, shrubs, and trees between farmland and waterways act as natural filters—slowing runoff, trapping sediment, and reducing nitrogen and phosphorus entering water systems
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Using water crystals
Planting in dry conditions or facing a summer drought? Adding water crystals to your planting hole is an easy and cost-effective way to help get your newly established restoration zone through the next summer dry.
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Managing Riparian Zones
A practical, science-based instructions for planning and implementing riparian management schemes, specifically for New Zealand’s modified and agricultural landscapes
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North Marlborough Planting and Restoration Guide
A comprehensive framework for planning and implementing native planting and ecosystem restoration
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Riparian Planting Guide
Step-by-step instructions for the planning and implementing riparian restoration along streams and rivers.
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Planting green firebreaks to reduce wildfire
Fire season reminds us why smart planning in restoration matters. Green firebreaks are an amazing tool. While reducing wildfire risk, protecting forest remnants and infrastructure, they also enhance biodiversity and restoration timeframes. Watch this short extract (10 mins) from our FireSmart webinar on planting green firebreaks.
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Tools for Ecological restoration in Nelson/Marlborough
Restoration guides specific to Marlborough and Nelson, including planting lists and ecosourcing seeds.
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Timata Method
A low density, economical planting method designed in New Zealand to restore land back to native forest.