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Girraween National Park encompasses some areas that are not considered remnant vegetation. These
are areas that before amalgamation with the park were used for farming or orchards. These non-remnant
areas are being managed or rehabilitated using a combination of Assisted Natural Regeneration (with weed
control and fire being the primary interventions) or revegetation using local provenance plants raised in a
nursery (QPWS 2010).
Management strategies and objectives that aim to preserve the Park’s unique vegetation communities
and flora, and mitigate identified threatening processes are detailed within the Girraween National Park
Management Plan 2010 (QPWS 2010).
Figure 1 Composition of the Park’s Remnant Regional Ecosystems and non-remnant vegetation
It is important that the goals and scale of Regional Ecosystem mapping are kept in mind when
interpreting the graph above. Queensland Regional Ecosystems are a landscape scale mapping and
classification framework. For most areas of Queensland, the Regional Ecosystem mapping and classification
is at a scale of 1:100,000 4 (Neldner, et al. 2005) and this limits the amount of information that is
represented. This is not a design fault of the mapping methodology as the framework was designed as a
tool to work at the landscape scale. At finer scales, the differences between vegetation communities are
more complex and diverse than the regional ecosystem framework provides.
4 Some areas of Queensland are mapped at a scale of 1:50,000
Vegetation of Girraween National Park, July 2011
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