RFI - Attachment 4C - MSES-MNES Assessment - Noosa Landfill RRC- Revision 3

                                                                                           Native Foresters



Table 6: SRI criteria – Regulated Vegetation (From Section 2.1 of the SRI Guidelines (DEHP,
2014) – criteria Table 1)

                                                       Clearing in a         Clearing in the         Clearing in a
                                                         regional              portion of a      regional ecosystem
                                                     ecosystem that              regional          that is within the
                                                     is: endangered,         ecosystem that      defined distance of a
                                                      or of concern           lies within a          watercourse
                                                                             mapped wetland
    1 For clearing other than clearing
      for linear infrastructure:                               X
        - area greater than 5 ha where in a              (Proposed
             grassland (structuralcategory)                area of
             regional ecosystem; or                      clearing of
        - area greater than 2 ha where in a             Endangered                     X                  X
             sparse (structuralcategory)
             regional ecosystem; or                      RE 12.5.3
        - area greater than 0.5 ha where                Total area =
             in a dense to mid-dense                       0.21ha
             (structural category) regional               cleared)
             ecosystem.
    2 Clearing within 50m of the defining                                                                 N/
                       bank                             N/A                            X
                                                                                                          A
    3   Clearing within 5m of the defining
                       bank                             N/A                      N/A                      X



5.2.2 Criteria – Landscape Connectivity
Section 3 of the SRI Guidelines (DEHP, 2014) states:

A development impact on connectivity areas is determined to be significant if either of the
following tests are true:
                   a. The change in the core remnant ecosystem extent at the local scale (post
                      impact) is greater than a threshold determined by the level of fragmentation
                      at the regional scale (see table below); or
                   b. Any core area that is greater than or equal to 1 hectare is lost or reduced
                      to patch fragments (core to noncore).


DES’s Landscape Fragmentation and Connectivity (LFC) decision support tool was used to
identify and quantify any significant impacts on connectivity associated with proposed works.
The LFC measures the extent and arrangement of the existing remnant vegetation against the
extent that would remain if the prescribed activity were to occur. The LFC analysis determined
that any impact on connectivity is not significant due to the following:

        o    The percent change of 0.01% in the extent of core remnant ecosystem at the local
             scale is not significant.
        o    No core remnant areas occur on the site, determining any impact is not significant.

The output of the LFC tool is provided in Appendix F – Log File Landscape Fragmentation
and Analysis Tool.




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