Conservation Reserves Management Strategy 2003 - Parks Victoria

3.1.5 Heritage valuesOf the 2486 historic places (non-indigenous sites) within the entire parks and reserves system, 31%occur within Conservation Reserves 1 .The 765 historic places within Conservation Reserves, are in only 168 reserves; that is, 6% of allConservation Reserves (Table 17). Most of these places (69%) are in Historical and Cultural FeaturesReserves.TABLE 17NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF CONSERVATION RESERVES WITH HISTORIC PLACES AND TOTALNUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF PLACES FOR EACH CATEGORYRESERVE TYPENO. RESERVES WITHHISTORIC PLACESNO. HISTORICPLACESRESERVES WITH PLACESAS A % OF ALL RESERVESNCR 33 92 1NFR 76 146 3HCFR 60 527 2Total 168 765 6Historic places occur in reserves in ten districts, the majority in Grampians and Murray Central.Historic places are often concentrated within individual reserves. A total of 394 of the 765 places inreserves are in only 12 reserves. Castlemaine–Chewton HA has the highest number of places (140),Maldon HA has 64 and Walhalla HA 32.3.1.6 Indigenous valuesDetailed archaeological surveys have been undertaken in less than 1% of parks and reserves toidentify Indigenous cultural heritage sites 2 . Approximately 20% or 760 000 of the 3.6 million hectaresof parks and reserves managed by Parks Victoria requires detailed archaeological survey. Althoughthe majority of this area is in parks, there are a number of Conservation Reserves that also requiresurvey.Indigenous sitesA third of known Indigenous sites in Victoria are in parks and reserves. Of these 8902 sites, 2835(32%) sites are in Conservation Reserves. These sites are in only 214 reserves; that is, 8% of allConservation Reserves (Table 18). Most of these reserves (over 70%) are Natural FeaturesReserves, while less than one quarter are Nature Conservation Reserves, and only 5% are Historicand Cultural Features Reserves. Although Historic and Cultural Features Reserves have the lowestnumber of reserves with sites, they account for almost one third of Conservation Reserve sites, whilstjust over 15% of sites are within Nature Conservation Reserves.TABLE 18NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF CONSERVATION RESERVES WITH KNOWN INDIGENOUS SITES FOREACH CATEGORY 3RESERVE TYPENO. RESERVES WITHINDIGENOUS SITESNO. OF INDIGENOUS SITESRESERVES WITH SITES ASA % OF ALL RESERVESNCR 48 486 2NFR 155 1585 6HCFR 11 764 < 1Total 214 2835 81Source of data: Parks Victoria Asset Management database Maximo2Source of data: AAV Site Register.3Number of sites does not include coastal reserves or Lake Tyers29