This is the website of the Tamahere Mangaone Restoration Trust [T.M.R.T.] We are a group of dedicated individuals who established the Trust in 2013 as a vehicle for the restoration and rehabilitation of a small area of forgotten Kahikatea forest reserve in the Tamahere-Mangaone gully system. The primary objective was to provide a walking track through the reserve to enable visitors to enjoy the area during and after the restoration work. This site had been largely untouched for the past 40 years and contained numerous invasive flora. Areas close to the roadside had also been used as a dumping ground for both household and commercial rubbish.
The work of the trust involves the removal of the introduced invasive species, clearing those areas and replanting with native species to allow the regeneration of existing and new native species and the return of native fauna [birds, bats and insects]. A large amount of rubbish has also been removed from the site.
The Tamahere -Mangaone gully restoration started with rehabilitating the Tamahere Reserve, a 4.6ha block of land owned by the Waikato District Council. The land is public land and the Trust operates under the stewardship of the Waikato District Council. The reserve is located a short distance from the Tamahere school on the Tauwhare Road. See the map for the location.
With the successful outcome in the Tamahere Reserve the Trust also works in other areas of Tamahere and includes ecological rehabilitation in the Mangaharakeke Stream gully network which is at the end of Woodcock road where the Allan Turner walking bridge is across the Mangaharakeke stream and connects to Fuchsia Lane on the Matangi side. There is also an opportunity for ecological restoration further down stream at the base of the Bilsthorpe Lane accessway.
The Mangaonua Stream gully network which is a little further north is also a future opportunity for ecological work,