{"id":2628,"date":"2025-08-12T02:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/?page_id=2628"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:48:41","slug":"maungataniwha-pine-forest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/maungataniwha-pine-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"MAUNGATANIWHA PINE FOREST"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2628\" class=\"elementor elementor-2628\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4094ee7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4094ee7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fdaebc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fdaebc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Logo-PNG-white.avif\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2127\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e90f62c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e90f62c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c682a2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0c682a2\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f095111 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f095111\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">MAUNGATANIWHA PINE FOREST<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5990b83 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5990b83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">This 6,294 hectare forest abutting the southern boundary of the\u00a0Maungataniwha Native Forest\u00a0was purchased by our Chairman Simon Hall in 2006.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">4,015 hectares were planted with\u00a0Pinus radiata\u00a0trees. These have all now been harvested and we are in the process of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/forest-restoration\/\">restoring this land<\/a>\u00a0to its native state.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">The rest of the property was never put under pine due to difficult topography. It remains covered by native bush. It\u2019s centred on an extensive area of papa-bluffs, extending over several kilometres parallel with the Te Hoe River, referred to locally as \u2018The Hidden Valley\u2019.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">This untouched area of native bush has been given added significance by the discovery here of all three species of beech-hosted mistletoe. Combined with a profusion of mistletoe in the nearby Hampton\u2019s Forest, the existence of these plants here gives weight to the idea that this area is a significant refuge for mistletoe in the northern Hawke\u2019s Bay region.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">The Maungataniwha Pine Forest has not been surveyed for rare native species and an unknown species of land snail is rumoured to exist here. North Island Brown Kiwi have been recorded, along with whio, kaka, kereru and kakariki. Other more common species of forest birds are also known to be present, as are native bats, and it\u2019s the site of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/our-projects\/\">bird translocation<\/a>\u00a0programme.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAUNGATANIWHA PINE FOREST This 6,294 hectare forest abutting the southern boundary of the\u00a0Maungataniwha Native Forest\u00a0was purchased by our Chairman Simon Hall in 2006. 4,015 hectares were planted with\u00a0Pinus radiata\u00a0trees. These have all now been harvested and we are in the process of\u00a0restoring this land\u00a0to its native state. The rest of the property was never put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2628","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2628\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/forest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}