September 2015
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The Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997 (NVCA) acknowledged the need for comprehensive vegetation mapping for NSW. Consequently, the New South Wales Government initiated a state-wide program known as the Native Vegetation Mapping Program (NVMP), which was managed through the NSW Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (DIPNR). Under this initiative, extant native vegetation communities, including herbaceous communities, were mapped for several sections of the State and published at 1:100 000 scale. Mapping was based on quadrat-based vegetation data, air photo interpretation (API) and, when appropriate, spatial modelling. If vegetation mapping already existed for some areas and it satisfied DIPNR requirements, then the Department sought to incorporate this mapping into the NVMP in cooperation with the parent agency. Project aims The specific aims of this project were to: 1. systematically and quantitatively sample native vegetation within a given study area; 2. derive a classification of native vegetation communities based principally on a statistical analysis; 3. describe all native vegetation communities occurring within the study area to the sub-association level (Beadle & Costin 1952); 4. map the distribution and extent of these communities, or combinations thereof, based primarily on the interpretation of aerial photography; and 5. publish this mapping as a series of 1:100 000 hard copy maps with an accompanying report.