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Entry by permit in selected forests over winter. Aratu says it is not taking requests for the rest of this season.
- When
- First weekend of May to the last weekend of September
- Right now
- Not taking requests for the rest of this season
- Next
- Applications reopen mid to late April
Exactly as Aratu publishes it
allows entry by permit in selected forests from the first weekend of May to the last weekend of September
we are not accepting public entry requests for the remainder of this season
Applications will reopen in mid to late April.
Recent cutting in this forest
The map shows where the trees were cleared in each year since 2011, coloured by age: yellow for the last three years, orange for four to seven, brown for older. In a plantation that age decides what you walk into: open slash and new seedlings, then thick regrowth, then a closing canopy.
See the cutting on the map → What the colours mean
Satellite-detected tree loss, so slips, storms and fire show up too. It says nothing about where this permit lets you go: the permit and the forest’s own map decide that, and an active harvest is closed.
Hunting on the East Coast · The year on one chart
The ballots, bookings, fees and rules belong to the organisers — we list them, we don’t run them. We last read this on Fri 9 Oct 2026 and check the page every day; if it changes, the details come off until we have read it again.