Table B1 Camps in the Lower Hunter used as Vegetation Recent Mapped camp >2,500 incl Accuracy description occupation Critical to max pop Camp Name vegetation type >50% of females of location Disturbance history Current conflict from site pattern survival >10,000 (GHVMv 4) last 10 sept-may (1=50m) inspection years Camp was occupied on an annual seasonal basis (summer) prior to approx 1997. Flying Landowner is now foxes were shot at by sympathetic, MU007 orchardists in a regular, would like to see Black Hill Sandpaper Fig not verified not occupied 1 0 0 0 no na na 2 organised manner. the animals return /Whalebone Mining company set and and is deployed 'bombs' approachable. beneath roosting animals in attempts to deter them. MU115 Eucalyptus parramattensis / Angophora bakeri Paperbark new camp, East / Melaleuca depression seasonality, etc 1 0 ? new 1 1 1 None None Cessnock nodosa shrubby Forest unclear woodland in the Cessnock-Kurri Kurri area None - CMA is negotiating with landowner to establish a MU007 Voluntary Sandpaper Fig / Conservation Hunter Valley annual, seasonal Millfield Whalebone Tree 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 None Agreement over Dry Rainforest (spring-summer) warm temperate the land as part of rainforest their involvement in Hunter Dry Rainforest conservation initiative
Table B1 Camps in the Lower Hunter Camp Name Mapped vegetation type (GHVMv 4) Vegetation description from site inspection Recent occupation pattern Critical to survival used as camp >50% of last 10 years max pop >10,000 >2,500 incl females sept-may Accuracy of location (1=50m) Disturbance history Current conflict Black Hill MU007 Sandpaper Fig /Whalebone not verified not occupied 1 0 0 0 no na na 2 Camp was occupied on an annual seasonal basis (summer) prior to approx 1997. Flying foxes were shot at by orchardists in a regular, organised manner. Mining company set and deployed 'bombs' beneath roosting animals in attempts to deter them. Landowner is now sympathetic, would like to see the animals return and is approachable. East Cessnock MU115 Eucalyptus parramattensis / Angophora bakeri / Melaleuca nodosa shrubby woodland in the Cessnock-Kurri Kurri area Paperbark depression Forest new camp, seasonality, etc unclear 1 0 ? new 1 1 1 None None Millfield MU007 Sandpaper Fig / Whalebone Tree warm temperate rainforest Hunter Valley Dry Rainforest annual, seasonal (spring-summer) 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 None None - CMA is negotiating with landowner to establish a Voluntary Conservation Agreement over the land as part of their involvement in Hunter Dry Rainforest conservation initiative
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