Karamatura Valley

For years, the most typical sounds heard within the Karamatura Valley were simply saws and Kauri trees collapsing. Then, Intermittently, from the 1850s to the 1890s, this valley was the center of the forest industry in the region. The Kauri is a gigantic tree, which is indigenous to New Zealand, can have a diameter of as much as 7 meters. Currently, it isn't easy to find one of these trees in the valley due to human activity, natural pests, and an affected population. In the Karamatura area, large Kauri tree trunks were transported to the streams that were seriously damaged, and once there, were let go downstream.