1. A Dramatic Landscape -- 2. Forest and wildlife -- 3. Maori of the central North Island to 1860 -- 4. The European impact: exploration to conflict, 1840-1890 -- 5. Opening the way for logging, 1890-1945 -- 6. Management of native forests in the central North Island  1919-1978 -- 7. The Pureora project -- 8. Pureora village and its community, 1945-87 -- 9. Conflict: words to action, 1970-78 -- 10. The moratorium and afterwards, 1978-87 -- 11. Rethinking forest administration, 1978-87 -- 12. Protecting the forests from introduced herbivores -- 13. Protecting the wildlife from predators -- 14. Recreation and development -- 15. Conclusion.