Montgomery Park Scenic Reserve Totaras
A page of stock pictures of the totara forest remnants at Montgomery Park Scenic Reserve, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. The reserve runs from the Summit Road near the Hilltop to the hills above Pigeon Bay. Like much of the peninsula, this area was once covered in totara (Podocarpus totara) forest that was cleared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to make way for farmland. Few mature trees remain, though they do regrow if left unmolested. Many of the felled trees were too large to remove with the primitive equipment of the day and were left to rot. Their hard wood is very slow to decay, so now the skeletons of the trees have formed weird and wonderful shapes, sculpted by the wind that blows almost continuously on the exposed tops. It is a place that is both sad and very interesting at the same time; a graveyard of past grandeur but with a beauty of its own.
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