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Sixteen years after the Monterey Pine which topped Maungakiekie – One Tree Hill was toppled, Auckland tribes are ready to replant.
At dawn on June 11 representatives from Nga Mana Whenua o Tamaki Makaurau, Tupuna Maunga Authority, Auckland Council and the local community will plant a small grove of nine young totara and pohutukawa.
Authority chair Paul Majurey says over the next decade arborists will select the strongest tree so that a single pohutukawa or totara remains standing on the tihi.
The pine, thought to be the sole survivor of a grove planted by Sir John Logan Campbell in the 1870s, was damaged in two chainsaw protests, the first by activist Mike Smith in 1994, and removed in 2000 because it was considered unsafe.
Ngati Whatua Orakei vetoed any replanting until treaty claims over the maunga were settled.
The specimens to be planted next month have been grown from parent trees at Maungakiekie, including pohutukawa seedlings found growing on the former Monterey pine.
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