Tungamah Landscape Planning

Landscape Plans for Goulburn Broken CMA - North East Goulburn Broken Zones - June 2003 The Landscape Plan for the Tungamah Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only sections relevant to the Tungamah Landscape Zone are shown below.
Tungamah Landscape Plan This Landscape Plan for the Tungamah Landscape Zone - June 2003, was produced in collaboration between L. D. Ahern - Nature Scope Pty Ltd; K. W. Lowe - Biodiversity and Natural Resources Division, DSE; D. Robinson - Biodiveristy and Natural Resouces Division, DSE & Regional Services, DSE; K. Handley - Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.

The Tungamah Landscape zone is comprised mainly (74%) by part of the Victorian Riverina bioregion and are alluvial plains of tertiary origin. Rises constituting components of Northern Inland Slopes bioregion vary from sedimentary to granitic in origin. The main drainage in the zone is via the Broken–Boosey Creek system, long sections of which are reserved as Public Land Water Frontage. This riparian system, which also incorporates creek and swamp components downstream of the plan area, is considered to be ‘the only remaining substantial occurrence of high quality native vegetation on the northern plains’ and has been recommended for reservation (in part) as ‘Broken–Boosey State Park’. Moodie Swamp, Tungamah Swamp and Dowdles Swamp State Game Reserves occur on the riverine plain within this zone, but all have had their original wetland attributes modified due to altered flooding-and-drying regimes, grazing, clearing, loss of connectivity, and other influences. Dowdles Swamp comprises part of the catchment of the high-value wetland system known as Muckatah Depression, which is an important tributary of Broken Creek (outside the zone), and is listed in the Directory of Important Australian Wetlands. Pre-1750 vegetation cover in the Victorian Riverina bioregion component included mainly plains grassy woodland, plains grassy woodland / gilgai plains woodland / wetland mosaic, and pine box woodland / riverina plains grassy woodland mosaic. Today, it is difficult to locate any relatively intact remnant examples of these woodlands greater than a few hectares in extent, except on several small conservation and gravel reserves, and on sites closely associated with the major creeklines. In the extensive series of hills in the south-east of the zone, roadside habitats are generally fragmented and, despite mature trees being common, understorey is mostly degraded. However, sedimentary slope vegetation is well exemplified in box ironbark forest at Boweya Flora and Fauna Reserve, which retains diverse flora and fauna values and sustains habitat links with the larger Killawarra State Forest in the adjacent North East Catchment Management Authority, to the east.

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