Helping landowners make decisions about growing trees
There are many reasons to grow trees, these include:
- timber production
- preventing erosion
- storing carbon
- diversifying your income
- environmental benefits like clean water and biodiversity
- to beautify the landscape.
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service offers forest advice and information to landowners and tangata whenua. It's free and impartial.
Our forestry advisers have regional knowledge and can give advice on many types of forestry, including native forests.
What we can help with
Our team can:
- visit your property to give site specific advice
- discuss your land management goals and how to achieve them
- offer advice about what species to plant
- help you with concerns about your forest’s health
- help you integrate trees into your farm
- support you with the Emissions Trading Scheme
- help you understand forestry rules and regulations.
Forestry rules and regulations
Connecting you to specialist advice
Our team can also connect you with industry experts and organisations to help you get specialist advice. That includes other government agencies or the Ministry for Primary Industries' On Farm Support team.
On Farm Support: a service for farmers and growers
Email us to contact a forestry adviser
forestserviceadvice@mpi.govt.nz
Forestry advisers are in 8 locations
Our advisers are based in:
- Whangārei
- Gisborne
- Rotorua/Whakatāne
- Palmerston North
- Whanganui
- Nelson
- Christchurch
- Timaru.
