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Waikato grassland grows quickly much to the delight of farmers whose free-grazing dairy herds crop its fertile plains. Much of the now-green pastures were the spoils of land wars between Maori and Pakeha in the 1860s. The Waikato was once relatively highly populated by Maori and its land was communally owned, according to ancestry. It was a landscape of dense bush on the hills, peat swamp and kahikatea (white pine) forests on flat land, and the low hills of the Waikato and Waipa river systems. The New Zealand Wars changed everything; it took nearly 20 years for the British and colonial forces to subdue Maori who were intent on keeping what was left of their land. What land was not confiscated by the government was effectively taken through the 1862 legislation which forced the traditional Maori group ownership to be individualised. Single owners were easy prey for land agents and the way was opened for the gradual development, during the 20th century, of the natural wilderness into the intensively farmed land it is today.
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