Tarwin/Powlett Landscape Planning
| Landscape Plans for Prom Plain Landscape Zone - Gippsland Plain Bioregion - December 2003. |  |
The Landscape Plan for the Prom Plain Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only sections relevant to the Prom Plain Landscape Zone are shown below. Tarwin/Powlett Plain Landscape Zone This Landscape Plan for the Tarwin/Powlett Plain Landscape Zone - December 2003, was produced in collaboration between G. Wallis - Consultant Fish Creek; C. Boyle, K. Lowe & H. Anderson - Biodiversity and Natural Resources Division, DSE. |
The bioregion covers 1.2 million hectares extending over 30 local government areas and three catchment management regions. It stretches from Melbourne Central Business District in the west, to Lakes Entrance in the east, and from Moe in the north, to Foster in the south. The Gippsland Plain bioregion is now the most populated bioregion in Victoria, including the demographic center of Melbourne and major populations on the Mornington Peninsula and Latrobe Valley. The landscape has been radically altered within the last 150 years. Most of the region is private freehold dominated by urban and rural residential, industrial and agricultural pursuits and there are small blocks of public land. The native vegetation of the Gippsland Plain bioregion is one of the better represented in the State. However, only 18% of the cover remains as native vegetation of which 8.2% is in formal reserves. Six species of indigenous flora and fauna are extinct, whilst of the remaining species, 184 species are considered threatened; 77 plants (35 dicotyledons, 35 monocotyledons, 6 ferns and allies and 1 moss) and 107 animals (12 mammals, 66 birds, 6 reptiles, 2 amphibians, 11 fish and 8 invertebrates). The bioregion includes lowland coastal and alluvial plains characterised by generally flat to gently undulating terrain, vegetated in parts with open forest with a grassy and herbaceous ground layer with areas of Swamp Scrub. Twenty-seven river systems transect the Gippsland Plain bioregion; most river reaches are in moderate to good condition and represent systems that retain significant natural features. The Forge Creek, Monkey Creek and Perry River reaches within the bioregion are considered in excellent condition.
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