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Ernslaw One forests

Run by Ernslaw One. Every detail below is quoted from their own page and checked against it every day.

Ernslaw One forests

Fallow deer · Ernslaw One's plantation forests, including the Blue Mountains · run by Ernslaw One

By permit

A private forestry company. Weekend hunting by permit — and its Blue Mountain forests go by ballot.

Access
Permit only, in every forest
When
Weekends only
Blue Mountains
Allocated by Ernslaw One's own ballot
Dogs
Proof of sheep-measles dosing, and kiwi aversion training where kiwi live
How to apply: Ernslaw One
Exactly as Ernslaw One publishes it
  • forests is by permit only, except for the recreation area in Naseby Forest
  • Ernslaw One allows parts of the forest land to open for hunting permits on weekends.
  • To enter any Ernslaw One Blue Mountain forest for hunting, please apply here to be on the ballot system.
  • evidence of recent dosing for sheep measles is required

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 in Southland · The year on one chart

Also in Southland

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.