The Oxford Forest Conservation Area is a protected forest area of 11,350 ha (28,000 acres) located in foothills near the township of Oxford in North Canterbury, New Zealand. The area is also an accredited International Dark Sky Park.
The forest is a remnant of extensive beech and podocarp forests that previously covered inland parts of North Canterbury. Species present in the forest include mountain beech and examples of the podocarps rimu, mataī, kahikatea, and tōtara.[1] The forest is mainly black beech (Nothofagus solandri) at lower altitudes, with mountain beech (Nothofagus cliffortioides) above 600 m (2,000 ft). From around 1851 to 1909, logging took place in the Oxford Forest and the nearby Woodside Forest property. Several fires in the late 19th century destroyed much of the forest, and logging ceased in 1915. Some areas of beech forest regenerated following a major fire in 1898. Sheep were grazed in some places from 1914, but grazing reduced after the 1930s, allowing more land to revert to beech. By 1973, the area was being managed as a forest park, with increasing areas of regenerating beech and plantations of exotic species.[2]
The Oxford Forest Conservation Area is classified as stewardship land, under section 25 of the Conservation Act 1987.[3] It includes walking and mountain biking tracks and is a recreational hunting area.[4] The conservation area includes Mount Oxford, with a height of 1,364 m (4,475 ft).[5]
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^Lisa A. Berndt; Eckehard G. Brockerhoff (30 December 2019). "Effects of land cover type on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Canterbury foothills, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science. 49. doi:10.33494/NZJFS492019X54X. ISSN 0048-0134. Wikidata Q111160500.
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