Dreeite NCR Management Statement (PDF File 2.2 ... - Parks Victoria

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This Management Statement has been written by Hugh Robertson and JamesFitzsimons for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria.This Statement fulfils obligations by the State of Victoria to the Commonwealth ofAustralia, which provided financial assistance for the purchase of this reserve underthe National Reserve System program of the Natural Heritage Trust.©The State of Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment 2005This publication is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except inaccordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968.ISBN 1 74152 140 8Disclaimer:This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and itsemployees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or iswholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liabilityfor any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on anyinformation in this publication.Cover:Permanent wetland surrounded by Stony Knoll Shrubland, Dreeite NatureConservation Reserve (Photo: James Fitzsimons).
Dreeite Nature Conservation ReserveObjectivesThis Management Statement for the Dreeite Nature Conservation Reserve outlinesthe reserve’s natural values and the directions for its management in the short tolong term.The overall operational management objective is:Maintain, and enhance where appropriate, the condition of the reserve whileallowing natural processes of regeneration, disturbance and succession to occur andactively initiating these processes where required.Background and ContextReason for purchaseSince the implementation of the National Reserve System Program (NRS) in 1992, allAustralian states and territories have been working toward the development of acomprehensive, adequate and representative (CAR) system of protected areas.In a systematic process to increase the reservation levels of Victoria’s mostthreatened ecosystems, the Department of Sustainability and Environment’sconservation land purchase program aims to acquire areas of private land containinghigh quality samples of such ecosystems for addition to the reserve system.A strategic assessment of high quality sites containing threatened ecosystems on theVictorian Volcanic Plain Bioregion was completed in 1999 (Ross 1999). Among anumber of sites identified as suitable for voluntary purchase and addition to theprotected area estate, the Stony Knoll Shrubland and wetlands at Dreeite werepurchased due to their good condition and position within a larger area containingthis vegetation type.The purchase was assisted with funding from the National Reserve System Programof the Commonwealth Government’s Natural Heritage Trust (Project No. N457).The Dreeite Stony Knoll Shrubland and wetlands fall within the Victorian VolcanicPlain IBRA 5.1 bioregion (Environment Australia 2000) and the Corangamite EastLocal Landscape Zone (Ross et al. 2003).LocationThe Dreeite Nature Conservation Reserve (Dreeite NCR) of 54.05 ha is located offHay’s Road approximately 2 km NNE of Dreeite and approximately 4.5 km from theeastern shoreline of Lake Corangamite (Figure 1). It consists of: Crown Allotment2001, Parish of Cundare. Purchase of the Dreeite property was completed on 9 July2004. The land was transferred to the Crown on 29 July 2004 and assigned to ParksVictoria for management on 21 January 2005.Reservation StatusThe Dreeite NCR is temporarily reserved for the “preservation of an area ofecological significance” under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 and managed as aNature Conservation Reserve.1
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