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FLORA AND VEGETATION ASSESSMENT WOODIE WOODIE MINESITE EXPANSION Prepared By Prepared For MBS Environmental December 2019 DOCUMENT STATUS DOCUMENT REFERENCE: MBS1902/72/19 VERSION TYPE AUTHOR/S REVIEWER/S DATE DISTRIBUTED V1 Internal review L Rowles E Chetwin V2 Draft for client L Rowles/E Chetwin E Mattiske 1/11/2019 FINAL Final report L Rowles E Mattiske 11/12/2019 (ACN 063 507 175, ABN 39 063 507 175) PO Box 437 Kalamunda WA 6926 Phone: +61 8 9257 1625 Email: [email protected] COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER Copyright The information contained in this report is the property of Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd. The use or copying of the whole or any part of this report without the written permission of Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd is not permitted. Disclaimer This report has been prepared on behalf of and for the exclusive use of MBS Environmental, and is subject to and issued in accordance with the agreement between MBS Environmental and Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd. This report is based on the scope of services defined by MBS Environmental, the budgetary and time constraints imposed by MBS Environmental, and the methods consistent with the preceding. Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd has utilised information and data supplied by MBS Environmental (and its agents), and sourced from government databases, literature, departments and agencies in the preparation of this report. Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd has compiled this report on the basis that any supplied or sourced information and data was accurate at the time of publication. Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd accepts no liability or responsibility whatsoever for the use of, or reliance upon, the whole or any part of this report by any third party. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................ 1 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Location and Scope of Proposal ........................................................................................... 3 1.2 Environmental Legislation and Guideline .............................................................................. 3 1.3 Objectives ......................................................................................................................... 4 2. METHODS ...................................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 Desktop Assessment .......................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Field Survey ...................................................................................................................... 6 2.3 Survey Timing ................................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Analysis of Quadrat Data .................................................................................................... 7 2.5 Vegetation Descriptions ...................................................................................................... 7 2.6 Survey Limitations ............................................................................................................. 8 3. DESKTOP ASSESSMENT RESULTS & DISCUSSION .................................................................... 10 3.1 Climate ........................................................................................................................... 10 3.2 Geology .......................................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Landforms ....................................................................................................................... 11 3.4 Soil Landscapes ............................................................................................................... 11 3.5 Beard’s Vegetation Mapping .............................................................................................. 11 3.6 IBRA Biogeographical Subregions ...................................................................................... 11 3.7 Land systems .................................................................................................................. 12 3.8 Pre-European Vegetation .................................................................................................. 13 3.9 Flora ............................................................................................................................... 17 3.9.1 Threatened and Priority Flora ........................................................................................... 17 3.9.2 Introduced (Exotic) Flora ................................................................................................. 17 3.10 Vegetation Communities ................................................................................................... 18 3.11 Threatened and Priority Ecological Communities ................................................................. 19 3.12 World Heritage Areas and Ramsar Wetlands ....................................................................... 19 3.13 National Heritage Properties ............................................................................................. 19 3.14 National Parks and Reserves ............................................................................................. 19 4. FIELD SURVEY - RESULTS .......................................................................................................... 21 4.1 Flora ............................................................................................................................... 21 4.2 Threatened and Priority Flora ............................................................................................ 22 4.3 Introduced (Weed) Species and Declared Pest (Plant) Organisms ......................................... 22 4.4 Vegetation ....................................................................................................................... 22 4.4.1 Statistical Analysis ............................................................................................................ 22 4.4.2 Vegetation Communities ................................................................................................... 25 4.5 Threatened and Priority Ecological Communities ................................................................. 34 4.6 Vegetation Condition ........................................................................................................ 34 5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS.............................................................................................. 36 5.1 Flora Species ................................................................................................................... 36 5.2 Priority Flora Species ........................................................................................................ 36 5.3 Introduced Flora Species................................................................................................... 36 5.4 Vegetation Communities ................................................................................................... 36 5.5 Vegetation Condition ........................................................................................................ 37 6. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................ 37 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................... 38 8. PERSONNEL ................................................................................................................................ 38 9. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................... 39 TABLES 1 Potential limitations affecting survey conclusions 2: Land systems intersecting the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 3: Pre-European Vegetation intersecting the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 4: Vegetation community descriptions for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 Area coverage of vegetation communities within the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 5: 2019 Vegetation condition (percentage) of vegetation communities mapped within the Woodie 6: Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 FIGURES 1: Locality of the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas 2: Survey sites and track logs within the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 3: Rainfall and temperature data for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2018-19 4: Land Systems for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas 5: Pre-European Vegetation for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas 6: Previous vegetation mapping for the greater Woodie Woodie Mine area, 2018 7: Species accumulation curve for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 8: Dendrogram of Bray-Curtis similarity matrix transformed foliage cover data for quadrats within the WWME survey areas, 2019 9.1-9.6: Vegetation mapping for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 10: Vegetation Condition mapping for the Woodie Woodie Mine Expansion Areas, 2019 APPENDICES A1: Threatened and priority flora and fauna definitions A2: Threatened and priority ecological community definitions A3: Categories and control measures of declared