Firewood
fIREWOOD aCCESS Firewood is made available exclusively to owners at the firewood yard off Kiko Road in Lake Taupō Forest. Short logs are provided at the yards, and require chain-sawing and splitting. To ensure access remains exclusive to owners, forest access permits are required to cut and take firewood. Permits must be shown on request. […]
Forest Access
Summer Access from 28 September 2026 Between 4:00pm and 11:00 pm weekdays Between 5:00am and 11:00 pm weekends and public holidays Winter Accessfrom 11 May 2026 Between 4.00pm and 8.00pm on weekdays Between 7.00am and 8.00pm on weekends and public holidays Owner access Owners’ access is for recreational and cultural purposes only, such as pig […]
Taiao Projects
Protecting our whakapapa Lake Taupō Forest Trust is responsible for the management of significant areas of lands and waterways which are crucial to the well-being and identity of the Tūwharetoa hapū who whakapapa to them. Our commercial operations, whether they be forestry, tourism or property developments, need to be aligned with the wellbeing of our […]
Land & Forest
The Lake Taupō Forest Trust is kaitiaki for 33,733 hectares, with large-scale forestry operations across the whenua providing the vast share of income which is distributed to the owners and descendants of the original owners. It all started with Māori owners of 58 land blocks coming together in 1969 and forming the trust and entering […]
Whenua
Kaitiakitanga Caring for Nature Land & Forest Ngāti Tūwharetoa has been on these lands for 800-plus years, and has always nurtured and respected the land. Since the late 1960s our focus has been on forestry but our role as kaitiaki means environmental and cultural requirements have priority over commercial imperatives. These requirements, particularly the importance […]