LOGGED and LOADED

TONGARIRO FOREST’S 25,000 HECTARES ARE strategically wedged between Tongariro National Park and the top of the Erua Forest near National Park.

Gazetted in 1900 as State Forest 42, the forest was systematically logged of its totara, matai, rimu, miro and kahikatea over the following decades. The Dominion Timber Company and the Egmont Box