Dookie Landscape Planning
| Landscape Plans for Goulburn Broken CMA - North East Goulburn Broken Zones - June 2003 The Landscape Plan for the Dookie Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only sections relevant to the Dookie Landscape Zone are shown below. |  |
Dookie Landscape Plan This Landscape Plan for the Chesney Landscape Zone - June 2003, was produced in collaboration between L. D. Ahern - Nature Scope Pty Ltd; K. W. Lowe - Biodiversity and Natural Resources Division, DSE; D. Robinson - Biodiveristy and Natural Resouces Division, DSE & Regional Services, DSE; K. Handley - Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority. |
The Dookie Landscape zone is mainly (81%) comprised of alluvial plains of the Victorian Riverina bioregion; the remainder is part of the Northern Inland Slopes bioregion and is represented by a major sandstone plateau in the Dookie–Cosgrove–Nalinga area, and a smaller granitic outcrop near Waggarandall. The pre-1750 woodland cover on the riverine plains consisted mainly of plains grassy woodland or pine box woodland / riverina plains grassy woodland mosaic The former vegetation cover on rises of the Northern Inland Slopes bioregion was predominantly grassy woodland. However, in the southern part of Dookie Agricultural Reserve, hill vegetation included box ironbark forest and, on low hills, alluvial terraces herb-rich woodland. The latter EVCs are still represented by a 150-ha remnant (south of the transmission lines, and east of Dookie–Gowangardie Road)—the largest non-linear parcel of relatively intact natural bushland remaining in the zone. Across the plains, only large old trees generally remain today (with little or no regeneration), although a few fortuitously preserved roadside and railside remnants survive. Most notably, native vegetation within the easement of the disused Shepparton–Katamatite Railway has retained much of its original diversity, and has regenerated well, such that sections of the rail reserve have been recommended for conservation reserve status. Vegetation along the Broken River corridor (formerly floodplain riparian woodland) is largely degraded, consisting of scattered strings of River Red Gum with a weedy or non-existent understorey. On the Dookie plateau and other outcrops, only very restricted hilltop remnants are evident today, primarily where rocky terrain has made access difficult for stock or impractical for management, and has enabled limited natural regeneration to continue. Because Dookie Landscape zone is largely cleared, with most remnant native vegetation being scattered and highly degraded, biodiversity assets will now only be retained through intensive protection, management and restoration. Restoration strategies are required which not only incorporate existing remnants but which feature habitat linkages, road reserve networks or ‘stepping stones’ across the landscape. Remnant networks relying heavily upon creeklines, roadsides and rail reserves are likely to form the basis of habitat restoration planning at the Local Landscape level for this zone.
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This document was last reviewed on 21/06/2011