NSW - CRA/RFA - Forests - Upper North East - National Estate - Remnant Vegetation

Remnant vegetation is important for demonstrating the principle characteristics of forested landscapes and ecosystems, and rare or uncommon species, and is related to maintaining existing processes.

Remnant vegetation were defined as forest ecosystems with a 90% reduction in their pre-1750 area and undisturbed elements within extensive forest ecosystems where such undisturbed areas constitutes less than 20% of their pre-1750 area based on expert opinion.

This dataset has been assessed against the following National Estate sub-criterion A2: Importance in maintaining existing processes or natural systems at the regional or national scale

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 1998. Departmental Deed