Little Forest, New South Wales

Little Forest is a rural suburb of the City of Shoalhaven on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Little Forest is to the north or Milton and the west of Yatte Yattah below the escarpment of Little Forest Plateau part of Morton National Park. It lies to the west of the Princes Highway.

Little Forest New South Wales
Subtropical Rainforest at Little Forest Creek, Little Forest, NSW, Australia.
Population	185 (SAL 2021)
Established	1827
Postcode(s)	2539
Elevation	96 m (315 ft)
Location	62 km (39 mi) S of Nowra 16 km (10 mi) WNW of Ulladulla 224 km (139 mi) SSW of Sydney
LGA(s)	Shoalhaven
Federal division(s)	Gilmore
Suburbs around Little Forest: Porters Creek Pointer Mountain Yatte Yattah Porters Creek Little Forest Yatte Yattah Endrick Croobyar Mount Kingiman Milton

History

Little Forest had the southern most distribution for Australian Red Cedar and as such the species in the area was heavily exploited in the 19th century during the 'red gold' rush. The land was claimed by Reverend Thomas Kendall in 1827 as part of Kendall's original Yatte Yattah land grant. Convicts and timbergetters carted lumber from Little Forest and Yatte Yattah to Ulladulla Harbour where it was shipped to markets. By the 1900s most of the red cedar had become locally extinct and Little Forest became a cattle farming area.