Areas of indicative National Estate old growth significant for ecological processes are considered to be those that have high integrity and natural context (as identified by the National Wilderness Inventory biophysical naturalness index) and above a minimum size threshold to ensure the viability and quality of the forest stand.
This dataset has been assessed against the following National Estate sub-criteria:
A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate
A2: Importance in maintaining existing processes or natural systems at the regional or national scale
B1: Importance for rare, endangered or uncommon flora, fauna, communities, ecosystems, natural landscapes or phenomena, or as a wilderness
This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth Government and NSW Governments under the NSW Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) Data Agreement of 31 March 2000.This data is available to the public from the Department and may be used by third parties for unrestricted use provided that the copyright interests of the owners are protected.
Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement:
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and New South Wales Government 1997.
Departmental Deed
