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Tasman Pine Forests

Run by Tasman Pine Forests Ltd. Every detail below is quoted from their own page and checked against it every day.

Tasman Pine Forests

Hunting · Tasman Pine Forests' estate, Nelson and Tasman · run by Tasman Pine Forests Ltd

By permit

A hunting access permit, applied for online and vetted. The public gets walk-in access; vehicle access is for people who work in the forests.

Permit
Hunting Access Permit, vetted, at the company's discretion
Access
Walk-in only for the public
Firearms
A copy of your firearms licence with the application
Iwi
Some areas are for Ngāti Koata hunters only
How to apply: TPFL
Exactly as TPFL publishes it
  • All applicants for a TPFL Hunting Access Permits will be vetted
  • eligible to apply for a TPFL Hunting Access Permit which allows walk in access only
  • provide a copy of their current NZ Firearms licence
  • Ngāti Koata iwi hunters who have exclusive hunting access to specific forest areas

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 Nelson/Tasman · The year on one chart

Also in Nelson/Tasman

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