Violet Town Landscape Planning

Landscape Plans for Goulburn Broken CMA - Central Goulburn Broken Zones - June 2003 The Landscape Plan for the Violet Town Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only sections relevant to the Violet Town Landscape Zone are shown below.
Violet Town Landscape Plan This Landscape Plan for the Violet Town Landscape Zone - June 2003, was produced in collaboration between L. D. Ahern - Nature Scope Pty Ltd; S. Berwick - Parks, Flora, Fauna Division, DSE; D. Robinson - Regional Servies, DSE & Trust for Nature; M. Howell & K. Handley - Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.

The Violet Town Landscape Plan consists of landforms typical of the Victorian Riverina bioregion, but with upland inliers of the Northern Inland Slopes bioregion. These modest uplands support their own characteristic vegetation associations (Grey, Red and White Box) which are markedly less favourable for agriculture than the riverine plains and hence have been retained more. Stream condition is moderate to poor. It encloses several wetlands that are of bioregional conservation significance. Over 90% of the native vegetation in the zone has been cleared for agriculture, which is broad-acre grazing and mixed cropping. The zone retains one of the few significant reserves of public land, Reef Hills State Park, in the bioregion. Creekline vegetation remnants retain good connectivity, and with the roadsides, now play an important role in sustaining biodiversity across this highly modified landscape.