Road and Track Closures

In the interest of public safety, Brown Mountain Road, Bucket Road, Holmes Road and associated spurs will be temporarily closed to conduct forest harvesting operations on Permanent Timber Production Zone Land.

The roads will be closed to all vehicular traffic for the duration of the operation, excluding traffic authorised by Sustainable Timber Tasmania.

These operations will involve felling trees along Brown Mountain Road, Bucket Road, Holmes Road
and associated spurs and processing and loading timber on associated landings.

The Forest Management Act 2013 at Clause 23(b)(2) provides:

“The Forest Manager may close a forest road or any section of forest road either permanently or temporarily to all traffic, or to a class of traffic, if the Forest Manager considers that the closure is necessary or expedient –

(a) for the purposes of discharging its responsibilities; or

(b) in the interests of safety.”

Harvesting operations are integral to Sustainable Timber Tasmania discharging its responsibilities.

Signage is in place to inform road users.

Closed for road works

Sustainable Timber Tasmania wishes to advise members of the community that Valley Road is a No Through Road.

In the interest of both the public and harvesting contractors, Sustainable Timber Tasmania may need to temporarily restrict access to Mt Paris Dam Road and Carnac Road to conduct harvesting operations on Permanent Timber Production Zone land.

These restrictions are expected to occur on weekdays, typically in the mornings, and will be in place only for a few days as necessary throughout the harvesting period. We anticipate that road users may experience minor delays of approximately 10 to 15 minutes during these times.

Please be advised that due to current high rainfall Bowens Road and Browns Creek Road (between Bakers Beach and Yorktown) is currently impassable due to water over the road.

Please take care when driving on forest roads and consider an alternative route.

There is a 5 tonne load limit over Tittie Gee Creek

Pruana Road between Bird Road jcn and Pioneer Road jnc has a 15-tonne load limit

Christmas Hills Road is closed at the bridge on Christmas Hills Road and Montagu River towards Terragomna Road.