6 definitions by RangiWiremuWakaJones
Kiwi for forest and scrub comprised mainly of native species of plants and trees. Some exotic invasive species can also be found there like privet, gorse, broom, and Himalayan honeysuckle.
Bush is a synonym of "temperate marine rain forest". The word probably comes from the Dutch "bos/bosch" which means forest and was introduced in the Southern hemisphere by early Dutch settlers.
Bush is a synonym of "temperate marine rain forest". The word probably comes from the Dutch "bos/bosch" which means forest and was introduced in the Southern hemisphere by early Dutch settlers.
by RangiWiremuWakaJones June 7, 2020
In New Zealand, refers a person that works and/or lives in the bush. In opposition to townies or cockys (dairy farmers). Historically bushmen were often cullers and/or loggers.
Josh James is New Zealand’s answer to British adventurer and television star Bear Grylls. Tall, bearded and intense, ‘The Kiwi Bushman’ is a pastiche of what it means to be the archetypal man in this country. Based in a small township* on the West Coast of the South Island, James is a jetboating, deer-hunting, tahr-killing, fish-catching wildman.
by RangiWiremuWakaJones June 8, 2020
Kiwi English vernacular for rural regions of bush and scrub land with farms and farmland being broken in. Usually difficult of access because only serviced by loose metal roads (gravel roads) that are narrow and dusty. Rough country farms with few and large paddocks inhabited by few people.
Not to be confused with back-block, which is the last paddock on the farm to have been broken into farmland.
Not to be confused with back-block, which is the last paddock on the farm to have been broken into farmland.
The farm is in the back-blocks beyond Welsford (town in New Zealand).
Years ago Kaukapakapa was considered the back-blocks.
Years ago Kaukapakapa was considered the back-blocks.
by RangiWiremuWakaJones June 7, 2020
Kiwi slang for hunters employed to reduce wild populations of deer, himalayan tahr, goats and birds (mainly Pukekos and ducks) in New Zealand using firearms. The concept was that cullers use to take enough of the animal to prove it was dead in order to get paid. More animals have been culled using the old British .303 than will ever be killed by any other caliber.
I thought there'd been a big culling op on the farm a few years ago but I just saw a mob of goats grazing in the back-block the other day.
Over the next two decades, especially after helicopter hunting superseded ground cullers, they largely disappeared – persisting in only a few areas.
Over the next two decades, especially after helicopter hunting superseded ground cullers, they largely disappeared – persisting in only a few areas.
by RangiWiremuWakaJones June 8, 2020
New Zealand's tangled growth of small trees and plants under 20ft comprised of vegetation that marks a transition between grasslands and forests. Scrub is mainly made up of tee-tree (manuka, kanuka), goarse, bracken and ferns. In time, the scrub vegetation will be replaced by forest. Scrub species don't grow in the forest because they need a lot of light. You'll often find scrub on the edge of forests or anywhere forests have been cut down.
by RangiWiremuWakaJones June 7, 2020
by RangiWiremuWakaJones June 8, 2020