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14 May, 2015 Our File Ref: B14101EL001.docx Contact: Leah Hattendorff W.Donald Milligan Pty Ltd 136 Top Forestry Road Ridgewood, Qld, 4563 RE: PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL INSPECTION - TOP FORESTRY ROAD Lambert & Rehbein’s Ecologist inspected the area subject to proposed road widening on the 24th of March, 2015. The vegetation to be impacted was inspected to investigate the presence of any threatened species or significant habitat trees that may be impacted by the road widening works. Small areas adjacent to the road are mapped as Regulated Vegetation (least concern). The areas as mapped are considered remnant, however, where the roadway currently intersects the patches, these areas are not considered remnant as the canopy density is no longer consistent with remnant parameters. The road largely skirts the edge of these mapped areas and any clearing adjacent to the road edges is unlikely to detrimentally impact or fragment the existing regulated vegetation. The canopy vegetation was dominated by Corymbia intermedia (Pink Bloodwood), Corymbia tesselaris (Moreton Bay Ash) and Eucalyptus propinqua (Small-fruited Grey Gum). Associated Eucalyptus microcorys (Tallowood) and Eucalyptus tereticornis (Forest Red Gum) were also common. The average T1 canopy height was approximately 25-30m. The sub-canopy layer was dominated by Lophostemon confertus (Brush Box),, Alphotonia excelsea (Red Ash), various common Acacias and Jagera pseudorhus (Foambark). The shrub and herbaceous layers were almost exclusively dominated by exotic pest plants, and declared weeds such as Lantana, Easter Cassia, Cotton Balloon Bush, Para Grass, Signal Grass, with some native soft bracken fern also common. An informal survey calculated that up to 30 trees (>150mm DBH) may be impacted by the works. The majority of these (15) being sub-canopy Brush Box. A small number (1-2) of trees that may be potentially impacted by the works were considered large (>50cm DBH) however, no threatened species or significant habitats were identified within the impact area. One large Tallowood was noted to support an arboreal termite mound, containing a bird nesting cavity. While it is possible that unforseen or obstructed hollows are present in the trees, it was noted that no natural hollows were identified in any trees to be impacted (during the inspection from ground level).
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14 May, 2015 -2- Our File Ref: B14101EL001.docx Contact: Leah Hattendorff In general, the area inspected was heavily modified by edge effects, consistent with roadsides and rural areas, with native mature canopy layers remaining present. Yours faithfully For and on behalf of LAMBERT & REHBEIN (SEQ) PTY LTD L.R. HATTENDORFF BSC (ENV), CENVP, MESA SENIOR ECOLOGIST ENVIRONMENTAL Enclosed: Regulated Vegetation Supporting Map – Top Forestry Road – Detail with Aerial Regulated Vegetation Management Map – Department of Natural Resources and Mines
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Regulated Vegetation Supporting Map — Top Forestry Road — Detail with Aerial
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14/05/2015 10:23:05 Longitude: 152.85667 Latitude: -26.457101 480000 481000 482000 48000 424000 L 485000 496000 487000 1 482000 489000 490000 491000 pew Nd ar L Brave 1524905 152°500°E h < af 152510 26-250°S 2er260's e270's ae200's 2e290's s°200°S 1B2s30E 1525405 152550 Legend Coordinates Category A area (Vegetation offsets/compliance notices/VDecs) Category B area (Remnant vegetation) Category C area (High-value regrowth vegetation) LURE - ( Category R area (Reef regrowth watercourse vegetation) Category X area (Vegetation not regulated under the VMA) ‘Water Area not categorised Cadastral line Property boundaries shown are provided as a locational aid only LOCALITY DIAGRAM A 680 1,360 2,040 2,720 This product is projected into: GDA 1994 MGA Zone 56 Regulated Vegetation Management Map Disclaimer: While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this product, the Department of Natural Resources and Mines makes no representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability or any particular purpose and disclaims all responsibilty and all lability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs which you might incurr as a result of the product being inaccurate or incomplete in any Way and for any reason. Additional information required for the assessment of vegetation values is provided in the accompanying “Vegetation Management Supporting map’. For further information go to the web site: www.dnrm.qid.gov.au or contact the Department of Natural Resources and Mines. Digital data for the regulated vegetation management map is available from the Queensland Spatial Portal at http://www. information qld.gov.au/ This map is updated on a monthly basis to ensure new PMAVs are included as they are approved. 3,400 m © The State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Mines), 2015
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[EBB category a or B area containing endangered regional ecosystems
[EBB category A or B area containing of concern regional ecosystems
[ ] category A or B area that is a least concern regional ecosystem
[] category 4 or B area containing remnant vegetation
Category A or B area under Section 20AH
These areas are edged in yellow and filled with the remnant RE Status
[EJ] category ¢ area containing endangered regional ecosystems
[-_] category ¢ area containing of concern regional ecosystems
{__] Category ¢ area that is a least concern regional ecosystem
[_] category ¢ area containing high value regrowth vegetation
Category C area under Section 20AI
These areas are edged in purple and filled with the remnant RE Status
[J non Remnant
[i] Water
[ZZ] wetland on the vegetation management wetlands map
AQ Essential habitat on the essential habitat map
LOCALITY DIAGRAM
Labels for Essential Habitat are centred on the area of enquiry
Regional ecosystem linework has been compiled at a scale of 1:100 000,
except in designated areas where a compilation scale of 1:50 000 is
available, Linework should be used as a guide only. The positional
accuracy of RE data mapped at a scale of 1:100 000 is +/- 100 metres.
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Pitney Bowes Software, makes no representations or warranties about
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limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages
(including indirect or consequential damage) and costs which you might
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Additional information may be required for the purposes of land clearing or
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the Department of Natural Resources and Mines.
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Vegetation Management Act 1999 - Extract from the essential habitat database - version 4.0
Essential habitat is required for assessment under the:
• State Development Assessment Provisions - Module 8: Native vegetation clearing which sets out the matters of interest to the state for development assessment under the Sustainable Planning
Act 2009; and
• Self-assessable vegetation clearing codes made under the Vegetation Management Act 1999
Essential habitat for one or more of the following species is found on and within 1.1 km of the identified subject lot/s or on and within 2.2 km of an identified coordinate on the accompanying essential habitat
map.
This report identifies essential habitat in Category A, B and Category C areas.
The numeric labels on the essential habitat map can be cross referenced with the database below to determine which essential habitat factors might exist for a particular species.
Essential habitat is compiled from a combination of species habitat models and buffered species records.
The Department of Natural Resources and Mines website (http://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au) has more information on how the layer is applied under the State Development Assessment Provisions - Module 8:
Native vegetation clearing and the Vegetation Management Act 1999.
Regional ecosystem is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated.
Essential habitat, for protected wildlife, means a category A area, a category B area or category C area shown on the regulated vegetation management map-
1) (a) that has at least 3 essential habitat factors for the protected wildlife that must include any essential habitat factors that are stated as mandatory for the protected wildlife in the essential habitat
database; or
2) (b) in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.
Essential habitat identifies endangered or vulnerable native wildlife prescribed under the Nature Conservation Act 1994.
Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation species record) areas:2200m Species Information
Label Scientific Name Common Name NCA Status Vegetation Community Altitude Soils Position in
Landscape
706 Adelotus brevis Tusked Frog V In cavities, under debris (logs, stones) in subtropical vine forest, Sea level to 1000m. no soil information None
tall open moist forest, heaths, Melaleuca swamp and
pasturelands near puddles and streams.
595 Litoria pearsoniana Cascade Treefrog V Under stones and in low vegetation along relatively large 100-1000m. no soil information Near/in streams.
(upstream catchment volume >1000GL) fast flowing rocky
streams in subtropical vine forest (complex notophyll) and wet
sclerophyll forest, especially where palms present in midstorey,
and occasionally along perennial densely vegetated streams in
open forest adjacent to rainforest.
676 Mixophyes iteratus Giant Barred-Frog E Adjacent to slow-moving permanent streams (up to 7m wide) and 100-1000m no soil information Near watercourses.
rivers in lowland open/moist forest (e.g. Eucalyptus grandis, E.
saligna), uncommon beside shallow, rocky streams (>2m wide)
with rapids in montane subtropical vine forest/rainforest and moist
eucalypt forest.
Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation species record) areas:2200m Regional Ecosystems Information
Label Regional Ecosystem (this is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated)
706 8.1.5, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 8.2.13, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3, 8.3.5, 8.3.6, 8.3.8, 8.3.9, 8.3.10, 8.3.11, 8.3.13, 8.5.1, 8.5.2, 8.5.3, 8.5.5, 8.5.6,
8.8.1, 8.9.1, 8.11.1, 8.11.2, 8.11.3, 8.11.4, 8.11.5, 8.11.6, 8.11.8, 8.12.1, 8.12.2, 8.12.3, 8.12.4, 8.12.5, 8.12.6, 8.12.7, 8.12.8, 8.12.9, 8.12.10, 8.12.11, 8.12.12, 8.12.14, 8.12.16,
8.12.17, 8.12.18, 8.12.19, 8.12.20, 8.12.22, 8.12.23, 8.12.25, 8.12.26, 8.12.27, 8.12.28, 8.12.29, 8.12.30, 8.12.31, 8.12.32, 11.1.4, 11.2.1, 11.2.2, 11.2.3, 11.2.5, 11.3.1, 11.3.2,
11.3.3, 11.3.4, 11.3.5, 11.3.6, 11.3.7, 11.3.8, 11.3.9, 11.3.10, 11.3.11, 11.3.12, 11.3.13, 11.3.14, 11.3.15, 11.3.16, 11.3.17, 11.3.18, 11.3.19, 11.3.20, 11.3.23, 11.3.25, 11.3.26,
11.3.27, 11.3.28, 11.3.29, 11.3.30, 11.3.32, 11.3.33, 11.3.34, 11.3.35, 11.3.36, 11.3.37, 11.3.38, 11.3.39, 11.4.1, 11.4.2, 11.4.3, 11.4.5, 11.4.6, 11.4.7, 11.4.8, 11.4.9, 11.4.10,
11.4.12, 11.4.13, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.12, 11.5.13, 11.5.14, 11.5.15, 11.5.16, 11.5.17, 11.5.20, 11.5.21, 11.7.1, 11.7.2, 11.7.3, 11.7.4,
11.7.6, 11.7.7, 11.8.1, 11.8.2, 11.8.3, 11.8.4, 11.8.5, 11.8.6, 11.8.8, 11.8.9, 11.8.11, 11.8.12, 11.8.13, 11.8.14, 11.8.15, 11.9.1, 11.9.2, 11.9.3, 11.9.4, 11.9.5, 11.9.6, 11.9.7,
11.9.8, 11.9.9, 11.9.10, 11.9.13, 11.9.14, 11.10.1, 11.10.2, 11.10.4, 11.10.5, 11.10.6, 11.10.7, 11.10.8, 11.10.9, 11.10.11, 11.10.12, 11.10.13, 11.11.1, 11.11.2, 11.11.3, 11.11.4,
11.11.5, 11.11.6, 11.11.7, 11.11.8, 11.11.9, 11.11.10, 11.11.11, 11.11.12, 11.11.13, 11.11.14, 11.11.15, 11.11.16, 11.11.17, 11.11.18, 11.11.19, 11.11.20, 11.11.21, 11.12.1,
11.12.2, 11.12.3, 11.12.4, 11.12.5, 11.12.6, 11.12.7, 11.12.8, 11.12.9, 11.12.10, 11.12.11, 11.12.12, 11.12.13, 11.12.14, 11.12.16, 11.12.17, 11.12.18, 11.12.19, 11.12.20,
11.12.21, 12.1.1, 12.2.1, 12.2.2, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.6, 12.2.7, 12.2.8, 12.2.9, 12.2.10, 12.2.11, 12.2.12, 12.2.13, 12.3.1, 12.3.2, 12.3.3, 12.3.4, 12.3.5, 12.3.6, 12.3.7,
12.3.9, 12.3.10, 12.3.11, 12.3.12, 12.3.13, 12.3.14, 12.3.15, 12.5.1, 12.5.2, 12.5.3, 12.5.4, 12.5.5, 12.5.6, 12.5.7, 12.5.8, 12.5.10, 12.5.11, 12.5.12, 12.5.13, 12.7.1, 12.7.2, 12.8.1,
12.8.2, 12.8.3, 12.8.4, 12.8.5, 12.8.6, 12.8.7, 12.8.8, 12.8.9, 12.8.10, 12.8.11, 12.8.12, 12.8.13, 12.8.14, 12.8.16, 12.8.17, 12.8.18, 12.8.19, 12.8.20, 12.8.21, 12.8.22, 12.8.23,
12.8.24, 12.8.25, 12.8.26, 12.9-10.1, 12.9-10.2, 12.9-10.3, 12.9-10.4, 12.9-10.5, 12.9-10.6, 12.9-10.7, 12.9-10.8, 12.9-10.9, 12.9-10.12, 12.9-10.13, 12.9-10.14, 12.9-10.16,
12.9-10.17, 12.9-10.18, 12.9-10.19, 12.9-10.20, 12.9-10.21, 12.9-10.23, 12.9-10.24, 12.11.1, 12.11.2, 12.11.3, 12.11.4, 12.11.5, 12.11.6, 12.11.7, 12.11.8, 12.11.9, 12.11.10,
12.11.11, 12.11.12, 12.11.13, 12.11.14, 12.11.15, 12.11.16, 12.11.17, 12.11.18, 12.11.19, 12.11.20, 12.11.21, 12.11.22, 12.11.23, 12.12.1, 12.12.2, 12.12.3, 12.12.4, 12.12.5,
12.12.6, 12.12.7, 12.12.8, 12.12.9, 12.12.11, 12.12.12, 12.12.13, 12.12.14, 12.12.15, 12.12.16, 12.12.17, 12.12.18, 12.12.20, 12.12.21, 12.12.22, 12.12.23, 12.12.24, 12.12.25,
12.12.26, 12.12.27, 12.12.28, 13.3.1, 13.3.2, 13.3.3, 13.3.4, 13.3.5, 13.3.7, 13.9.2, 13.11.1, 13.11.2, 13.11.3, 13.11.4, 13.11.5, 13.11.6, 13.11.7, 13.11.8, 13.12.1, 13.12.2,
13.12.3, 13.12.4, 13.12.5, 13.12.8, 13.12.9, 13.12.10
595 12.1.1, 12.2.1, 12.2.2, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.7, 12.2.8, 12.3.1, 12.3.2, 12.3.3, 12.3.4, 12.3.5, 12.3.7, 12.3.9, 12.3.10, 12.3.11, 12.3.15, 12.5.1, 12.5.3, 12.5.6, 12.5.13, 12.8.1,
12.8.2, 12.8.3, 12.8.4, 12.8.5, 12.8.6, 12.8.7, 12.8.8, 12.8.9, 12.8.10, 12.8.11, 12.8.12, 12.8.13, 12.8.14, 12.8.18, 12.8.21, 12.8.22, 12.8.23, 12.8.24, 12.8.25, 12.8.26, 12.9-10.1,
12.9-10.2, 12.9-10.3, 12.9-10.4, 12.9-10.5, 12.9-10.6, 12.9-10.10, 12.9-10.11, 12.9-10.14, 12.9-10.15, 12.9-10.16, 12.9-10.17, 12.9-10.18, 12.9-10.19, 12.9-10.20, 12.9-10.21,
12.9-10.23, 12.9-10.24, 12.11.1, 12.11.2, 12.11.3, 12.11.4, 12.11.5, 12.11.6, 12.11.9, 12.11.10, 12.11.11, 12.11.12, 12.11.13, 12.11.16, 12.11.17, 12.11.18, 12.11.19, 12.11.23,
12.12.1, 12.12.2, 12.12.3, 12.12.4, 12.12.5, 12.12.6, 12.12.11, 12.12.13, 12.12.15, 12.12.16, 12.12.17, 12.12.18, 12.12.20, 12.12.26, 12.12.28
676 12.1.1, 12.2.1, 12.2.2, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.7, 12.2.8, 12.3.1, 12.3.2, 12.3.3, 12.3.4, 12.3.5, 12.3.7, 12.3.9, 12.3.10, 12.3.11, 12.3.15, 12.5.1, 12.5.3, 12.5.6, 12.5.13, 12.8.1,
12.8.2, 12.8.3, 12.8.4, 12.8.5, 12.8.6, 12.8.7, 12.8.8, 12.8.9, 12.8.10, 12.8.11, 12.8.12, 12.8.13, 12.8.14, 12.8.18, 12.8.21, 12.8.22, 12.8.23, 12.8.24, 12.8.25, 12.8.26, 12.9-10.1,
12.9-10.2, 12.9-10.3, 12.9-10.4, 12.9-10.5, 12.9-10.6, 12.9-10.10, 12.9-10.11, 12.9-10.14, 12.9-10.15, 12.9-10.16, 12.9-10.17, 12.9-10.18, 12.9-10.19, 12.9-10.20, 12.9-10.21,
12.9-10.23, 12.9-10.24, 12.11.1, 12.11.2, 12.11.3, 12.11.4, 12.11.5, 12.11.6, 12.11.9, 12.11.10, 12.11.11, 12.11.12, 12.11.13, 12.11.16, 12.11.17, 12.11.18, 12.11.19, 12.11.23,
12.12.1, 12.12.2, 12.12.3, 12.12.4, 12.12.5, 12.12.6, 12.12.11, 12.12.13, 12.12.15, 12.12.16, 12.12.17, 12.12.18, 12.12.20, 12.12.26, 12.12.28
Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation) areas:2200m Species Information
(no results)
Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation) areas:2200m Regional Ecosystems Information
(no results)
Essential habitat in Category C (High value regrowth vegetation) areas:2200m Species Information
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