The vegetation of the Western Blue Mountains
On behalf of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority, the Department of Environment and Conservation NSW has mapped the vegetation of the western Blue Mountains. The mapping covers the western limits of the catchment in the Capertee, Coxs, Jenolan and Gurnang areas.
These areas have been mapped in detail to provide information on vegetation communities (including any Endangered Ecological Communities), conservation status, dominant canopy species, understorey, rock cover, disturbance and mapping reliability.
The following vegetation maps should be used in conjunction with the Technical report and the Vegetation community profile documents listed below:
- Capertee Valley area (PDF - 11.9MB)
- Coxs Valley area (PDF - 11.1 MB)
- Jenolan-Gurnang area (PDF - 3.7 MB)
Volume 1: Technical Report
This report describes the distribution and composition of the native vegetation communities for portions of the Capertee, Lithgow and Oberon areas within the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment. The mapping provides an important information resource for a wide range of support planning, management and monitoring for biodiversity objectives within the catchment.
If you have a broadband internet connection, you may wish to download the complete 4.1 MB file:
If you have a dial-up internet connection, you can download sections of the report below:
- Cover, Title page, Acknowledgments, Executive summary (PDF - 243 KB)
- Contents (PDF - 22KB)
- Introduction (PDF - 1.5MB)
- Methods (PDF - 810KB)
- Results (PDF - 905 KB)
- Discussion (PDF - 306 KB)
- References (PDF - 20 KB)
- Appendix A: Feature codes, sampling effort and map unit allocation (PDF - 203 KB)
- Appendix B: Plant species list (PDF - 220 KB)
- About this publication
Volume 2: Vegetation community profiles
If you have a broadband internet connection, you may wish to download the complete 9.4 MB file:
If you have a dial-up internet connection, you can download sections of the report below: