Burrinjuck Nature Reserve Explained

Type:protected
Burrinjuck Nature Reserve
State:nsw
Iucn Category:Ia
Relief:1
Coordinates:-34.9575°N 148.5894°W
Nearest Town Or City:Burrinjuck
Established:1984
Area:52.50
Area Footnotes:[1]
Managing Authorities:NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
Url:http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nationalparks/parkHome.aspx?id=N0560

The Burrinjuck Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve on the south west slopes of New South Wales, Australia. The 5250ha reserve is located adjacent to the Burrinjuck Dam, with of the reserve located on the northern side of the reservoir, and the remaining located on the southern side of the reservoir[2] to the northeast of Black Andrew Nature Reserve. It includes land formerly managed as the Burrinjuck State Forest and Burrinjuck State Recreation Area.[2]

History

The reserve was established in 1984. Initially, it consisted of of land, but and about of the former Burrinjuck State Recreation Area were added in 2001 following the passage of the, and a further were added to the western side of the reserve in 2006.[2]

The entire reserve has been subject to bushfire, though some parts of the reserve have experienced fire more often than others.[3] A particularly severe fire in the summer of 1972–1973 burnt around of land in the area.[4] Recent work demonstrated that the vegetation communities in the reserve appear to be quite resilient to fire.[5]

Public facilities

The only public facilities in the reserve are the Hume and Hovell Track and a track that leads to the summit of Mt. Barren Jack from Burrinjuck Waters State Park.[2]

Ecology

Flora

Six different forest ecosystems are recognised in the reserve:[2]

Threatened species

Two species listed on the are known to exist in the reserve. The Yass daisy is listed as vulnerable, and the crimson spider orchid is listed as endangered. There are thought to be about 100 crimson spider orchid plants in the reserve, which constitute one of four known populations of the species in New South Wales.[6]

Grevillea iaspicula meets the criteria for listing as Critically Endangered in NSW under the .[7] Seven sub-populations of the plant are known to occur in the Wee-Jasper–Burrinjuck area; one of these sub-populations is located in the reserve.

Fauna

3 amphibian species, 9 reptile species, 32 mammal species and 179 bird species have been recorded in the reserve since the late 1970s.

Threatened species

16 animal species known to exist in the reserve are listed under the .[2] All are listed as vulnerable. They are the gang-gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum), turquoise parrot (Neophema pulchella), superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii), barking owl (Ninox connivens), powerful owl (Ninox strenua), brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus), speckled warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus), black-chinned honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis ssp. gularis), hooded robin (Melanodryas cucullata), grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis ssp. temporalis), olive whistler (Pachycephala olivacea), diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata), spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis), squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) and the eastern bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis).

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Burrinjuck Nature Reserve. Office of Environment and Heritage. Government of New South Wales. 17 September 2014.
  2. Web site: Burrinjuck Nature Reserve plan of management. PDF. 1 February 2012. September 2010. NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service. Government of New South Wales. 978-1-74232-954-3.
  3. Burrinjuck Nature Reserve fire management strategy 2006. New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. 1 February 2012. August 2006. 1-74137-274-7.
  4. Web site: Brief history of bushfires in NSW. New South Wales Rural Fire Service. 1 February 2012.
  5. Doherty . M.D. . Wright . G. . Post fire recovery after the 2003 Canberra fires—bouncing back in Bimberi, Brindabella and Burrinjuck . Proceedings of Bushfire 2004: Earth, Wind and Fire—Fusing the Elements. 2004. Adelaide, South Australia.
  6. Web site: Crimson spider orchid. Nature Conservation Trust of New South Wales. 1 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120318065655/http://nct.org.au/nature-conservation/wildlife/native-plants/crimson-spider-orchid.html. 18 March 2012. dead.
  7. NSW Scientific Committee. Grevillea iaspicula McGillivray (Proteaceae): Review of Current Information in NSW. 2008. 5 May 2013.

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