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The Crown purchased the land that is now Waipoua Forest in 1876 (DOC 2011).Inaccessibility was probably the main factor that protected the Waipoua Forest fromextensive kauri tree logging, although over 600 men carried out gum digging and gumtapping in the Waipoua area in the early 1900s (DOC 2011). Construction of State Highway12 (SH12) through the heart of the forest began in 1926 (DOC 2011). Intensive logging wasdone in Waipoua Forest during World War II, up until 1948, with the Forest obtainingprotection in 1952 (Miller and Holland 2008).The present day land cover for the entire catchment is dominated by indigenous forest(75%), followed by exotic forest (16%) with pasture being less than 5% (Table 2 and figure2). While there are some small areas of pasture in the headwaters of the catchment, themajority of the exotic forestry is downstream of SH12 (ie, outside of the ‘Outstanding river’catchment). The pastoral land cover is used for sheep and beef dry stock farming. Over 90%of the area in the ‘Outstanding river’ catchment (ie, upstream of SH12) is indigenous forest,with the remainder mainly being pasture and manuka/kanuka shrub (Table 2). The majorityof this pastoral land in the headwaters of the catchment is now either owned by the NewZealand Native Forests Restoration Trust, which has become the Professor W. R. McGregorReserve or the Waipoua Forest Trust, who both aim to restore the land to indigenous forest(New Zealand Native Forests Restoration Trust 2012).Table 2: Land cover (LCDB3), in hectares, of the entire Waipoua River catchment and thecatchment identified as an ‘Outstanding river’ in the Regional Water and Soil Plan.Land cover Outstanding river Whole catchmentBroadleaved Indigenous Hardwoods 26.8 (0.3%) 62.7 (0.6%)Coastal Sand and Gravel 9.3 (0.1%)Exotic Forest 60.6 (0.8%) 1,689.6 (15.1%)Forest - Harvested 143.8 (1.3%)High Producing Exotic Grassland 420.1 (5.4%) 494.8 (4.4%)Indigenous Forest 7,063.7 (90.7%) 8,361.9 (74.9%)Low Producing Grassland 4.6 (0.1%) 8.8 (0.1%)Manuka and/or Kanuka 212.2 (2.7%) 372.3 (3.3%)River 18.0 (0.2%)Transport Infrastructure 0.6 (0.01%)Total 7,788.0 11,161.9Less than 200 people live in the Waipoua River Catchment (DOC 2011). There are anestimated 10-15 dwellings in Waipoua Settlement in the valley downstream of SH12including the two Te Roroa marae; Pānanawe and Matatina. There is the WaipouaCampground and Visitor Centre, located by the River directly downstream of SH12. Ownedand managed by Te Iwi O Te Roroa, it includes a Visitor Centre and café, 80 tent sites, 18cabins and at least 6 houses. There is also an estimated 5-7 dwellings in the uppercatchment on SH12, including the Waipoua Lodge, which can sleep about 12 guests(Waipoua Lodge 2012) and a further 2-3 dwellings on the Kaikohe Road past Tutamoe.10
Figure 2 Land cover of the Waipoua River catchment11
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