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Blue Mountains fallow blocks

Balloted every month. Run by Department of Conservation. Every detail below is quoted from their own page and checked against it every day.

Blue Mountains fallow blocks

Fallow deer and pigs · Blue Mountains Recreational Hunting Area, Southland · run by Department of Conservation

Balloted every month
Applications
A new ballot every month, February to November
Size
23 blocks
  • Midweek, driving in through Ernslaw One's forest needs NZDA "approved hunter" registration. Weekend bookings don't.
  • The pine plantations around it belong to Ernslaw One, which runs its own separate ballot — see Ernslaw One under permits below.
How to apply: DOC
Exactly as DOC publishes it
  • The area has been divided into 23 hunting blocks which are balloted monthly from February through to the end of November.
  • 23 hunting blocks
  • Midweek vehicle access requires hunters to be registered as an
  • Ernslaw One manage the exotic forest plantations and run their own balloted hunting blocks in that area.
  • Vehicle access approval requirements do not apply for weekend bookings.

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