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Author Mark, Alan Francis, 1932- author.

Title Standing my ground : a voice for nature conservation / Alan F. Mark
Published Dunedin : Otago University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Sir Geoffrey Palmer; 1 FORMATIVE YEARS; Early years and school; New Zealand tertiary education; The USA: Postgraduate studies and marriage; Initial employment: Otago Catchment Board; 2 RESEARCH FOR THE HELLABY TRUST; Snow-tussock grassland: A burning issue; Snow tussock and water production; What's in a fog?; 3 THE SOUTH ISLAND HIGH COUNTRY; Maungatua: Battle for a boundary; Black Rock Scientific Reserve; Pukerau Red/Copper Tussock Scientific Reserve; Gorge Hill Red/Copper Tussock Conservation Area; A proposed Central Otago conservation park
Eyre Mountains land allocationThe Hocken Lecture; 4 THE NARDOO TUSSOCK GRASSLAND DEBATE; 5 SAVE MANAPOURI -- AND BEYOND; Resolution of the issue and establishment of the Guardians of Lakes Manapouri and Te Anau; 1987 and beyond; A second tail-race tunnel for West Arm; Manapouri saved; 6 QUANGOS I HAVE KNOWN; Technical Advisory Committee on Reserves and Scenic Amenities, Dunedin Regional Planning Authority, 1968-78; Scientific Co-ordinating Committee on Beech Research, New Zealand Forest Service, 1973-83; New Zealand National Parks and Reserves Authority, 1981-90
Land Settlement Board, 1984-86; Task Force on Wetlands, New Zealand Environmental Council, 1982-83; New Zealand Mountain Lands Institute, 1989-92; Otago Conservation Board, 1990-2001; Fiordland Marine Guardians, 2001-13; New Zealand Conservation Authority, 2001-; Review Panel on Flora, Fauna and Land Use, Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, 1992-93; 7 ROYAL FOREST AND BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND; Diversification of society activities; Protection for West Coast indigenous forests; Credible conservation; Timberlands: A postscript; Hurunui water project
Save the Denniston Plateau, 2011-13; Dunedin branch activities; 8 OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; Secretary Island: The impact of deer-browsing; Vegetation succession: Changes along environmental gradients; Vegetation survey and monitoring of Mount Aspiring National Park; Southland ecology and conservation; Ecological studies of the Waitutu marine-terrace sequence; Ecological studies in South Westland; Nokomai patterned wetlands; Ecology of mānuka; New Zealand alpine vegetation in a global context; 9 ENGO AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENTS
Native Forest Action Council: The Maruia Declaration, 1975; Save Aramoana Campaign, 1974-84; Otago Catchment Board, 1974-86; Save Central, 2005-13; Wise Response, 2011-; Future prospects; Epilogue: Rewards and Recognitions; Appendix: Wise Response Inc. Oral Submission to Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, 1 July 2015; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "For more than five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-grassland reserves in the South Island high country to his involvement in the 2011-13 campaign to save the Denniston Plateau from mining, he has been a passionate and effective advocate for the preservation of areas of ecological importance. Alan's conservation activities are informed by a distinguished academic career. A staff member of the Department of Botany at the University of Otago from 1955 until his retirement in 1998, he has run and participated in numerous research projects, taught thousands of students and published 200 academic papers. As well as providing an important record of New Zealand's conservation battles and documenting the life of an outstanding New Zealander, Standing My Ground is an inspiring reminder of the power of individuals to make a difference."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2019)
Subject Mark, Alan Francis, 1932-
Conservation of natural resources -- New Zealand
Conservationists -- New Zealand
Plant ecologists -- New Zealand
Conservation of natural resources
Conservationists
Plant ecologists
New Zealand
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780947522759
0947522751