Biodiversity Strategy - Gosford City Council - NSW Government

of streams for water quality purposes. The Hunter Central Rivers CAP also provides guidelines
on riparian vegetation protection, recommending
A - 5.2.7
Recommendations arising from Previous Mapping Projects
As a result of the vegetation mapping projects that were undertaken for Council a number of
recommendations have been provided for Council.
Summary of Recommendations for Council Bell (2004)
Recommendation
1. Augmentation of the COSS system to ensure that adequate representation of all
vegetation communities and sub-communities are included.
2. Conservation efforts expanded to public and privately owned land outside of
conservation reserves managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
(now DEC).
3. Expansion of conservation land use zoning to ensure important areas of vegetation
are protected from inappropriate forms of development, including use of
conservation incentives to encourage proper land management.
4. Development of a system to prioritise all remaining remnants of currently listed
Endangered Ecological Communities.
5. Protection of all remaining riparian corridors and associated wetlands and floodplain
communities where native vegetation occurs or is at least moderately well
represented. This would ensure that several significant plant species and vegetation
types (including EEC's) are protected.
6. Preparation of restoration plan for vegetation communities that are currently poorly
represented in a natural state, and for which former habitat under an appropriate
land tenure is available or can become available;
7. Investigation into the status distribution and abundance of significant plant species in
the City; in particular:
• Research on species in those situations where development conflicts arise with
particular species;
• Promote use of conservation incentives to encourage the retention and
management of habitat for significant vegetation types and plant species;
• Vegetation survey in poorly defined or poorly sampled vegetation types to
clarify floristic relationships between the various vegetation units within the
region.
Source: Bell (2004) and comments this report.
In addition, Bell (2004) recommended that a number of vegetation types that should be targeted
for future survey:
• Coastal Ranges Open Forest (Map Unit (E9)
• Wollombi Redgum – River Oak Woodland (E14)
• Hunter Range Grey Gum Forest (E21)
• Alluvial Floodplain Woollybutt Forest (E37b
• Alluvial Floodplain Redgum Forest (E37d)
• Phragmites Rushland (E40a)
• Swamp Oak Sedge Forest (E41)
• Umina Lepironia Sedgeland (E45)
• Freshwater Typha Wetland (E46a)
• Estuarine Saltmarsh/ Grassland (E47a)
• Coastal Sand Foredune Scrub (E50a)
• Coastal Sand Beach Spinifex (E53)
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