'A vision to restore the environment': how history helps us make sense of the present
Earlier this month, the Minister for the Environment David Parker made an address to the Forest & Bird annual conference entitled "A...
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Will we ever see another "Manapouri"?
Has New Zealand failed its environment? is the question asked by Jamie Morton, Science Reporter at the New Zealand Herald, in his piece...
Undoing environmental history (with a spade)
This blog was originally published in 2011 on envirohistory NZ. Though my implement of choice for environmental history is the pen (or...
A Manawatu landscape, then ... and now
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...
'Re-wilding' our cities' lost waterways
The announcement of the upcoming symposium on Perth's 'lost lakes' - 'a 200 year history of infill, paving, draining, damming,...
Melding science and story-telling for a better future
I was privileged last month to be invited to be keynote speaker at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the International Society of River...
A Christmas totara
Like many New Zealand homes, we have an artificial Christmas tree stashed away in its box, ready to be unfurled for the festive season....
Beyond Manapouri
Since my interview with Kathryn Ryan on RNZ yesterday, I have been inundated by inquiries about my new book Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of...
Our rivers: reflecting on the past
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...
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