This blog was originally published in 2011 on envirohistory NZ. Though my implement of choice for environmental history is the pen (or...

A bend in Pohangina River, near Totara Reserve. Catherine Knight.

Most of the trees we have planted at our 'permanent retreat' in Pohangina Valley (see Life changes) are New Zealand natives - and to the...

... But that's just my opinion, so I canvassed a number of individuals in my community to gauge their reaction to the book. Here is a...

One of Charles E. Wildbore's most evocative images (in a desolate kind of way) is this one of men getting ready to cart sleepers from...

Today's Manawatu Standard features an article on my latest book project, the story behind the images of Charles E. Wildbore, farmer,...

I was privileged last month to be invited to be keynote speaker at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the International Society of River...

Since my interview with Kathryn Ryan on RNZ yesterday, I have been inundated by inquiries about my new book Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of...

Earlier this evening I got a call out of the blue from a nice young reporter from Newshub, keen to interview me for their morning show on...

I have been reading Max Harris' much acclaimed book The New Zealand Project (BWB Books, 2017). Harris believes that to face the major...