A new guide has been released describing the vegetation formations, endangered ecological communities and site-managed species in the Riverina region. The guide is one of a series of ten guides, covering the ten LLS regions across NSW. They were funded as part of the NSW Environmental Trust Linear Reserves Project.
The guides were developed to enable rapid field assessment of the potential status of native vegetation on Travelling Stock Reserves (TSRs). However they present a useful snapshot of the different vegetation classes which exist across the Riverina region.
There are 15 Vegetation Classes that occur in the Riverina region and are covered in the guide (excluding the alpine areas which largely fall within the Kosciusko National Park):
- Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
- Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
- Floodplain Transition Woodlands
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
- Inland Riverine Forests
- Inland Floodplain Woodlands
- Inland Floodplain Shrublands
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- Riverine Plain Woodlands
- Riverine Plain Grasslands
- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
For more information on the conservation of TSRs, and to view the vegetation guides for other regions, visit the LLS website.
