Map: NZTopo-BP32 Paraparaumu.
Grid reference: centred on 637598.
Geology: Alternating dark grey argillite and greywacke sandstone.
Conglomerates; rare limestone bands. Volcanic bands. Deformation complex;
rodding and extensive boudinage structures; intensely sheared and semischistose.
Wellington greywackes. Triassic. NZ Geological Map 1 ; 250,000
Wellington. NZ Geological Survey. 1967.
Soils: Paremata-Terawhiti soils. Soils of Wellington District. H S Gibbs. Soil
Bureau, DSIR. 1960.
Ecological District: Cook Strait Ecological District 39.02, close to the boundary
with Wellington Ecological District 39.01.
Catchment: A.T.Clark Creek
Landform: coastal escarpment with associated spur and gully.
Elevation range: c. 10 m – 110 m above sea level
Area: c. 3 ha.
Aspect: northwest – north – northeast.
Rainfall: 1328 mm average over 1971 to 2000 quoted by NIWA
Tenure: Kiwirail and Kāpiti Coast District Council
Status: Crown, managed by Kiwirail, a State-Owned Enterprise; Kāpiti Coast
District Council Local Purpose Reserve
Vegetation types: Kohekohe-dominant mature coastal forest; regenerating
coastal broad-leaved forest; planted forest.
Management: pest-animal control, pest-plant control, and planting, by Nga
Uruora Kāpiti Project.
Territorial Local Authority: Kāpiti Coast District Council.
Lists prepared on 6.6.2015 by Wellington Botanical Society and Nga Uruora
Kāpiti Project during a four-hour reconnaissance; lists updated on 13.6.2015 by
P Enright during a five-hour reconnaissance.
Notes
The mature forest, which since 2001 has been subject to intensive control of
pest animals and pest plants, is beginning to recover from decades of
infestation. Thus kohekohe trees are flowering profusely, and numerous
seedlings of kohekohe, and some seedlings of tītoki, tawa and hīnau, have
appeared.