> Much of New Zealand's pastureland (by no means all) is cleared land, > and that means some of it would have been rainforest, even on the > South Island.
Cleared land certainly, before people got here the islands were pretty much covered by native bush tip to tail (excepting the tussocked highlands). I wouldn't have thought to call it rain forests but I suppose it might be such. My alma mater, Canterbury University, has a forestry department that maintains a small section of native bush between their buildings that I've noticed (while wandering through at night) is kept fairly consistently wet. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
