Colin Meurk and the Totaras
Colin Meurk and I started chatting online. I don’t remember how exactly. I think I was asking all the college professors I could find about carbon emissions and the usefulness of tree planting projects. Might anyone be able to research or do something interesting with our 45 acres? Likely not, but I was interested to try. Colin pointed me in the direction of Tane’s Tree Trust. Also to his Biodiversity New Zealand network. We chatted, and he gave me a tour of the trees around the house and showed me that I had a male and a female totara trees out front.
A pair of Totaras. The female with the male cones on the left, the female on the right.
After some scrambling around in the patch of native trees behind the ‘outside bedroom’ building, Colin managed to identify a number of examples of native species making that their home.