Plan of Management Moonee Beach Nature Reserve MOONEE BEACH NATURE RESERVE PLAN OF MANAGEMENT NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service February 2012 This plan of management was adopted by the Minister for the Environment on 7th February 2012. Acknowledgements This plan of management is based on a draft plan prepared by staff of the North Coast Region of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), part of the Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier and Cabinet. The NPWS acknowledges that these reserves are in the traditional country of the Gumbaynggirr people. FRONT COVER: Photos of kangaroos on Look At Me Now Headland, Bare Bluff, and Zieria prostrata on Bare Bluff by Tom Denman, NPWS. For additional information or any inquiries about this reserve or this plan of management, contact the NPWS Coffs Coast Area Office, 32 Marina Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450 or by telephone on (02) 6652 0900. Published by: Office of Environment and Heritage NSW 59–61 Goulburn Street PO Box A290 Sydney South 1232 © Copyright State of NSW and the Office of Environment and Heritage NSW: Use permitted with appropriate acknowledgment. ISBN 978 1 74293 551 5 OEH 2012/0196 Printed on recycled paper FOREWORD FOREWORD FOREWORD Broadwater National Park has an area of 4,290 hectares and is located FOREWORD approximately 35 kilometres south-east of Lismore on the north coast of New Ramornie National Park is located 40 kilometres west of Grafton on the NSW North South Wales. The park extends from near the village of Evans Head in the south, Coast. Currys It was Gap reserved State Conservationin 1999 and covers Area, Mount3,307 Mackenziehectares. The Nature park Reserve is in two and portions Doctors northwards towards the village of Broadwater and includes 9 kilometres of separatedMooneeNose Beach byMountain Ramornie Nature Nature StateReserve Forest.Reserve is located are located15 kilometres on the northNorthern of Coffs Tablelands Harbour ofon New coastline. the NorthSouth Coast Wales, of south NSW, west and ofcovers Tenterfield. an area Currys of 336 Gap hectares. State Conservation It consists of Areacoastal covers Ramorniesandan plains area National and of 227 floodplains, Park hectares, contains dunes Mount 328and Mackenzie nativefour prominent plant Nature species, headlands. Reserve including is 141 two hectares vulnerable in size, Broadwater National Park is part of a system of coastal national parks which species and and Doctors eleven Nose species Mountain of Naturesignificance. Reserve There is 66 is hectares. a relatively high diversity of protect important conservation features typical of the north coast of New South eucalyptMoonee speciesBeach with Nature 16 species Reserve recorded. conserves The gallery seven dry rainforestendangered is considered ecological part Wales, including plant communities such as wet and dry heathland, eucalypt forest ofcommunities an Theendangered reserves and ecological containsix threatened relatively community. undisturbedplant species, high including elevation theold growthonly known open forest.wild In and woodland. The park supports more that 360 species of animals, including populationsaddition of to the a number endangered of regionally headland uncommon zieria (Zieria flora prostrata species,). Thirteenan endangered threatened species 48 threatened species, and is an important area for migratory shorebirds that feed Theanimal parkof mintbushspecies is also havewasparticularly recentlybeen recorded significant rediscovered in forthe in thereserve, Mount conservation Mackenzie many of of which Naturewoodland are Reserve shorebirds. birds, after owls, 100 and/or roost on the sandy beaches, estuaries, lagoons and rock platforms during gliders,The yearsreserve bats of andbeingis also small thought home mammals. extinct.to a range TheThere ofreserves moreare 22 common also threatened contain animals, twofauna endangered including species easterncurrently ecological their annual migrations. recordedgreycommunities, kangaroos, in the park, red-necked New with aEngland further wallabies fivePeppermint speciesand swamp predictedWoodland wallabies. to occur.and White Box Yellow Box Blakely's Red Gum Woodland, and five threatened fauna species. Broadwater National Park also includes sites of spiritual significance and of TheThe park reserve also alsocontains contains an Aboriginal many significant site and Aboriginala number ofsites, historic including sites, middens,including axea tick contemporary importance to the local Aboriginal community. quarantinefactories,The New sacredfence, South sitesthe Wales stumpsand artefact National of a scatters,former Parks tickand which inspector’s Wildlife provide Act buildingevidence 1974 requires and of a a rich stockman’sthat history a plan of shelter.of themanagement traditional use be of prepared the area forby theeach Gumbaynggirr nature reserve people. and state conservation area. A The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 requires that a plan of draft plan of management for Currys Gap State Conservation Area, Mount management be prepared for each national park. A draft plan of management for TheThe NewMackenzieNew SouthSouth Nature WalesWales ReserveNational andParks Doctors andand Wildlife WildlifeNose Mountain ActAct 19741974 Nature requiresrequires Reserve that that a awasplan plan placedof of Broadwater National Parkrd was placed on public thexhibition from 16 April to managementmanagementon public be beexhibition preparedprepared from for 3 eacheach December naturenational reserve.2010 park. until A 14draftdraft March planplan of2011.of management management The submissions for for 19 July 2010. The submissions received were carefully consideredth before RamornieMooneereceived BeachNational were Nature Parkcarefully wasReserve consideredplaced was on placed publicbefore exhibition onadopting public fromthisexhibition plan. 15th May from until 30 31 Januaryst August adoptingth this plan. 2009.until 11The submissionsMay 2009. Thereceived submissions were carefully received considered were carefully before adoptingconsidered this beforeplan. adoptingThe planthis plan.contains a number of actions to protect the natural values of the reserve, The plan contains a number of actions to achieve the NSW 2021 goal to protect The planincluding contains research a number into fireof actionsecology, to theprotect implementation the natural valuesof actions of the to reserve,assist the our natural environment, such as the implementation of strategies to assist the includingThe recoveryplan surveyscontains of threatenedand a number research ofspecies actionsfor threatened and to achieve communities, animal the NSW species, and 2021 the the goal controlimplementation to “Protect of introduced our of recovery of threatened species, including for the pied oystercatcher; preparation of actionsnaturalplants toenvironment”, controland animals. erosion including The and plan theto also assiststabilisation provides the recovery forof lowsand impact ofdunes threatened self-reliant and other species recreation eroded and on a pest management plan for the park; and revision of the fire management endangeredareas,management the implementation ecological trails communities, in ofMount strategies Mackenzie and tocontrol assist Nature of the introduced recovery Reserve plantsof andthreatened and Currys animals. speciesGap TheState strategy for the park. The plan also provides for enhanced recreation opportunities planand alsoConservationcommunities, provides forArea. and continued the ongoing vehicle-based control touring,of weeds. bushwalking, The plan bushalso camping“Enhances and by upgrading pedestrian access from the Broadwater Beach Day Use Area to the picnickingrecreation in opportunities” the park. through the upgrading of walking tracks where necessary, beach, and provision of interpretation signage at the Broadwater Lookout. and Thisprovision plan of interpretivemanagement and establishes other information. the scheme of operations for Currys Gap State This planConservation of management Area, Mount establishes Mackenzie the scheme Nature ofReserve operations and forDoctors Ramornie Nose National Mountain This plan of management establishes the scheme of operations for Broadwater Park.This NatureInplan accordance of Reserve. management with In accordancesection establishes 73B withof the the section scheme National 73B of Parks operationsof the and National Wildlife for Moonee Parks Act 1974and Beach ,Wildlife this National Park. In accordance with section 73B of the National Parks and Wildlife planNature ofAct management Reserve.1974, this In plan isaccordance hereby of management adopted. with section is hereby 73B adopted. of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, this plan of management is hereby adopted. Act 1974 , this plan of management is hereby adopted. Robyn Parker MP RobynRobyn ParkerParker MPMP MinisterMinisterMinister for forfor the thethe Environment EnvironmentEnvironment Minister for the Environment . 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