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VEGETATION ASSESSMENT
LOT 21 RP 839106 BOREEN POINT NOOSA SHIRE

 

3.0 RESULTS

31 Site Status:

The Regional Ecosystem (RE) covering the study site is described by the Queensland
Herbarium in table 1 below:

Table 1. Regional Ecosystems Lot 21 on RP 839106, Boreen Point, Noosa Shire.

 

 

Regional Ecosystem RE Status Area Area

12.9 10.4 Not of Concern >90% >3955m2
Open-forest to woodland with Eucalyptus
racemosa locally prominent. Other species can
include Angophora leiocarpa, Eucalyptus
seeana, E. siderophloia, Corymbia intermedia, °
E. tindaliae with Lophostemon suaveolens,
Melaleuca quinquenervia, E. tereticornis on
lower slopes. Occurs on Cainozoic and
Mesozoic sediments + remnant Tertiary
surfaces.

 

 

Non rem : Non-Remnant <10% < 440m2

 

 

 

 

 

Noosa Shire Council Strategic Plan Kin Kin/Cootharaba/Boreen Point Locality has portions
of the site mapped as Open Space — Conservation & Waterway Protection as preferred
dominant land use designation. Refer figure 2. For further discussion refer to section 4
below.

Vegetation Management Act Essential Habitat - Species Habitat Factors, have the site
labelled 29186 ~ Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) southeast Queensland bioregion.

The site is not shown as ‘koala living area’ on Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation
and Management Program 2006 — 2016, Noosa Council, Feb. 2006. In addition Noosa
Councils Schedule 7 Map — Koala Conservation Areas does not include the Boreen Point
area.

', 3.1 Site Vegetation: .

Proposed lot 8 is generally covered with vegetation being predominantly indigenous ~
regrowth. The vegetation community may be described as a mostly closed Eucalypt forest
with a patchy understorey mix of tree regeneration and shrub species. Anthropogenic
influences such as clearing, access tracks and dumped refuse have degraded the area
resulting in creating some open space patches and a lack of old growth or fully mature
specimens.

 

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