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Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management NSW NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management environment.nsw.gov.au Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management © 2019 State of NSW and the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment With the exception of photographs, the State of NSW and Department of Planning, Industry and Environment are pleased to allow this material to be reproduced in whole or in part for educational and non-commercial use, provided the meaning is unchanged and its source, publisher and authorship are acknowledged. Specific permission is required for the reproduction of photographs. The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) has compiled this report in good faith, exercising all due care and attention. No representation is made about the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the information in this publication for any particular purpose. DPIE shall not be liable for any damage which may occur to any person or organisation taking action or not on the basis of this publication. Readers should seek appropriate advice when applying the information to their specific needs. All content in this publication is owned by DPIE and is protected by Crown Copyright, unless credited otherwise. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), subject to the exemptions contained in the licence. The legal code for the licence is available at Creative Commons. DPIE asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: © State of New South Wales and Department of Planning, Industry and Environment 2019. This plan of management was adopted by the Minister for Environment on 19 December 2019. Acknowledgments Wongarbon Nature Reserve is part of Country for the Wiradjuri Aboriginal People. This plan of management was prepared by staff of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). For additional information or any inquiries about Wongarbon Nature Reserve or this plan of management, contact the NPWS Coonabarabran Area Office at 30 Timor Street, Coonabarabran NSW 2357 or by telephone on (02) 6842 1311. Front cover image: Brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus). Photo credit: DPIE Published by: Environment, Energy and Science Department of Planning, Industry and Environment 4 Parramatta Square, 12 Darcy St, Parramatta 2150 Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta, NSW, 2124 Phone: +61 2 9995 5000 (switchboard) Phone: 1300 361 967 (Environment, Energy and Science enquiries) TTY users: phone 133 677, then ask for 1300 361 967 Speak and listen users: phone 1300 555 727, then ask for 1300 361 967 Email: [email protected] Website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au Report pollution and environmental incidents Environment Line: 131 555 (NSW only) or [email protected] See also www.environment.nsw.gov.au ISBN 978 1 922318 28 2 EES 2020/0043 December 2019 Find out more about your environment at: www.environment.nsw.gov.au ii Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Location, reservation and regional setting....................................................................... 1 1.2 Statement of significance ................................................................................................ 2 2. MANAGEMENT CONTEXT ................................................................................................ 3 2.1 Legislative and policy framework .................................................................................... 3 2.2 Management purposes and principles ............................................................................ 3 2.3 Specific management directions ..................................................................................... 3 3. VALUES ............................................................................................................................. 4 3.1 Geology, landscape and hydrology ................................................................................. 4 3.2 Native plants and animals ............................................................................................... 4 3.3 Aboriginal connections to Country .................................................................................. 7 3.4 Shared heritage .............................................................................................................. 8 3.5 Visitor use....................................................................................................................... 9 4. THREATS .........................................................................................................................11 4.1 Pests .............................................................................................................................11 4.2 Fire ................................................................................................................................14 4.3 Fragmentation and isolation ..........................................................................................16 4.4 Climate change .............................................................................................................17 5. MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS AND OTHER USES ........................................................19 5.1 Management facilities and operations ............................................................................19 6. IMPLEMENTATION ..........................................................................................................20 REFERENCES .........................................................................................................................23 FIGURES Figure 1: Wongarbon Nature Reserve ........................................................................................ iv TABLES Table 1: Threatened species and ecological communities recorded in the reserve .................... 6 Table 2: Pest species recorded in Wongarbon Nature Reserve ................................................12 Table 3: Climate change snapshot for Central West and Orana Region ....................................17 Table 4: List of management responses ....................................................................................20 iii Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management Figure 1: Wongarbon Nature Reserve iv Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management 1. Introduction 1.1 Location, reservation and regional setting Features Description Wongarbon Nature Reserve Location Wongarbon Nature Reserve (referred to as ‘the reserve’ in this plan) is located one kilometre north of the village of Wongarbon and approximately 15 kilometres south-east of Dubbo in the central west of New South Wales. It is close to Beni State Conservation Area and forms part of the headwaters of Sandy Creek, and of the intermittent watercourse (see Figure 1). The reserve is bounded to the west by Woodleys Road, to the east by Barbigal Road and to the north by a Crown road reserve. Area 99 hectares Reservation date 24 September 1965 Previous tenure In 1897 the lands now comprising Wongarbon Nature Reserve were reserved as part of the ‘temporary common’ for the town of Murrumbidgeree (which was later renamed Wongarbon). In 1925 a forest reserve was gazetted over 59 hectares (145 acres) of the land and in 1931 the remaining 40 hectares (100 acres) were gazetted as a timber reserve. In 1965 these lands were dedicated as a faunal reserve, named ‘Wongarbon Nature Reserve’, under the Faunal Protection Act 1948. All faunal reserves became nature reserves on commencement of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. Regional context Biogeographic The reserve lies in the Talbragar Valley subregion of the Brigalow Belt region South Bioregion (DSEWPaC 2012). The reserve forms part of a regional network of reserves including Beni State Conservation Area, Goonoo National Park and State Conservation Area, and Coolbaggie Nature Reserve all to the north; and Goobang National Park to the south. Surrounding The lands to the north and west of the reserve are predominantly cleared land use for sheep and cattle grazing and dryland cropping. To the south and east, lands are also cleared, with a higher intensity of land use associated with smaller holdings. Other authorities The reserve is located within the administration areas of Dubbo Local Aboriginal Land Council, Central West Local Land Services and Dubbo Regional Council. 1 Wongarbon Nature Reserve Plan of Management 1.2 Statement of significance Wongarbon Nature Reserve is significant for its biological and landscape values. Biological values • The reserve protects important remnant native vegetation in a highly cleared landscape. • The reserve contains White Box – Yellow Box – Blakely’s Red Gum Woodland ecological community, listed as endangered under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and as critically endangered under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. • The reserve supports two threatened woodland bird species, the grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis) and the brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus victoriae), both listed as vulnerable under the Biodiversity Conservation Act. Landscape values • In 1978 Wongarbon Nature Reserve was listed on the Register of the National Estate (now the non-statutory Australian Heritage Database) because it is an important remnant of the original temperate woodland
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