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NZ Walking Routes > Wairarapa > Carter Scenic Reserve - Kahikatea Walk
Carter Scenic Reserve - Kahikatea Walk
- Location
- From Carterton follow Park Road to the end, turn left into Carters Line and right into Gladstone Road to Carter Scenic Reserve. The reserve is signposted approximately 3 km along Gladstone Road. The car park is about 500 metres along the driveway.
- Description
Carter Scenic Reserve is one of the few remaining remnants of patchwork landscape once typical of the Wairarapa – grass, wetland, shrubland, and forest. It is home to native birds, fish, lizards, and endangered plants.
This area of swamp and semi-swamp forest on two old terraces of the Ruamahanga River represents a patchwork landscape that was once typical of the Wairarapa – grass, wetland, shrubland, and forest.
Because Carter Reserve offers such a variety of habitat types, it has become a haven for some of the plants and animals that became extinct or reduced to low numbers through land clearance in the Wairarapa Plains during the 1880s and 1900s. They include brown mud fish and Coprosma pedicellata, a small leafed plant that grows in areas that are very wet in the winter and very dry in summer.
Rare tree species that once thrived at Carter and the surrounding area are being propagated and have been re-introduced to the area and planted amongst these regenerating forests.
- Amenities
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- Birds
- Carpark
- Dogs Allowed
- Fishing
- Historical
- Plant Life
- Source
- www.doc.govt.nz
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