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A guide to harvesting for small forest owners

This guide will help exotic tree owners, who are not forestry experts, plan, prepare and ask the right questions of harvesting companies and contractors to ensure the selection of an appropriate contractor ahead of entering into a contract and ultimately harvesting their trees....

Te Uru Rakau Regional Fact Sheet for Northland

Current state of the forestry and wood processing industries in Northland and Auckland. Te Tai Tokerau/Northland stretches from south-east of Mangawhai across to the Kaipara Harbour and to the most northern part of New Zealand, Cape Rēinga. It is the country’s most northern region. Auckland is the most populous city of New Zealand. Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf to the east, the Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitāke...

Northland Regional Council Forestry Environmental Regulation and Supporting Documents

The National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry (NES-CF), formerly the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF), are for managing the environmental effects of plantation and exotic continuous-cover forestry (sometimes called carbon forestry). These came into effect on 3 November 2023....

New Zealand Plantation - Facts & Figures

This annual publication contains background information and statistical data on the New Zealand forest industry. It is jointly released by FOA and MPI. You can order printed copies of New Zealand Forest Facts & Figures online using the order form on the FOA website. ...

Wood Availability Forecast – Northland 2021

This report is issued by Margules Groome Consulting Ltd (Margules Groome) to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), for their own use. The reports contain the regional and national wood availability forecasts for New Zealand plantation forestry estates. ...

Northland Regional Economic Profile

GDP in Northland Region measured $10,653.4m in the year to March 2025, down 0.9% from a year earlier. Growth was the same as in New Zealand (-0.9%)....

National Exotic Forest Description

New Zealand’s net stocked planted production forest covered an estimated 1.793 million hectares as at 1 April 2024.The total planted forest standing volume was estimated to be 561 million cubic metres with an average age (area weighted) of 18.7 years.The provisional new planting estimate for the year ending 31 December 2023 is 69,000 hectares. This number may be revised in future publications.Table 1 on the following page provides key national forestry statistics as at 1 April 2024, ...

Tai Tokerau Northland Growth Study Opportunities Report February 2017

As Ministers for Economic Development, Primary Industries and Māori Development, we believe strongly that building successful and more resilient regions is key to building a prosperous nation.Recognising and capitalising on the opportunities and strengths of different regions is vital to enable each region to provide employment and a good standard of living for its people and to maximise each region’s contribution to the economic and social wellbeing of New Zealand....

Water quality New Zealand planted forests environmental facts

There are some 1.7 million hectares of planted forests in New Zealand, 90% of which are in radiata pine. These forests are home to an estimated 24,220 kms of streams that, for most of the forest growing cycle, provide a source of high quality water to downstream users. There is increasing pressure on our water resources, however with prudent stewardship and ongoing improvements to management practices, New Zealand’s forests will continue to provide sustainable sources of high quality water....

Plantation forestry statistics Contribution of forestry to New Zealand

March 2017 NZIER report to New Zealand Forest Owners Association and New Zealand Farm Forestry Association funded by the Forest Growers Levy Trust Inc....