roosting pairs. Select Powerful Owl sites to meet the POMA target in the to the Management are discovered. following order of priority: Standards and Procedures 1. confirmed nest trees utilised during the past 5 years clause 4.1.3.1 f) for Bendigo 2. confirmed roost trees utilised during the past 5 years FMA SMZ habitat tree 3. repeated sighting or vocalisation during the past 5 years prescriptions. 4. incidental sighting or vocalisation during the past 5 years 5. historic record not reconfirmed in the past 5 years 6. potential habitat area (preferably based on formal analysis and modelling). In State forest, include POMAs in SMZ. Bendigo Swift Lathamus Maintain a SMZ across all Swift Parrot Management Areas (SPMA) in State forest Within the SMZ: Review Swift Parrot discolor within the Bendigo FMA. SPMAs are located in -protect all large trees (refer Parrot SMZs if Havelock State Forest/Timor State Forest to the Management new Maldon State Forest Standards and Procedures information Rushworth State Forest clause 4.1.3.1 f) for Bendigo arises. St.Arnaud State Forest FMA SMZ habitat tree Wareek State Forest (Chadwick Dam) prescriptions); and Spring Plains/Argyle State Forest -exclude all management Illawarra State Forest activities likely to disturb Costerfield State Forest Swift Parrots while the birds Diamond Dam are foraging within the area. Dunolly-Tarnagulla SF (Murderers Hill-Wet Gully) Kingower State Forest Lockwood South SF Mt. Hooghly SF Redcastle State Forest (Holt’s Flat) Sandon State Forest Sedgwick State Forest One-Eye State Forest Central Baw Baw Philoria Maintain a SPZ over the potential habitat envelope of the Baw Baw Frog, based Highland Frog frosti on the distribution of known frog localities (Victorian Biodiversity Atlas) and FMAs modelling of the distribution of breeding habitat (Liu and White 1999). Central Maintain a minimum of 30% of suitable habitat within SPZ. Highland FMAs Phascogale tapoatafa Central Protect 30 % of Ash forest from timber harvesting operations in each LMU Highland Possum considering the following factors for selection of retained patches: FMAs - the aim to retain patches least likely to burn during bushfires;
roosting pairs. Select Powerful Owl sites to meet the POMA target in the following order of priority: 1. confirmed nest trees utilised during the past 5 years 2. confirmed roost trees utilised during the past 5 years 3. repeated sighting or vocalisation during the past 5 years 4. incidental sighting or vocalisation during the past 5 years 5. historic record not reconfirmed in the past 5 years 6. potential habitat area (preferably based on formal analysis and modelling). In State forest, include POMAs in SMZ. to the Management Standards and Procedures clause 4.1.3.1 f) for Bendigo FMA SMZ habitat tree prescriptions. are discovered. Bendigo Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor Maintain a SMZ across all Swift Parrot Management Areas (SPMA) in State forest within the Bendigo FMA. SPMAs are located in Havelock State Forest/Timor State Forest Maldon State Forest Rushworth State Forest St.Arnaud State Forest Wareek State Forest (Chadwick Dam) Spring Plains/Argyle State Forest Illawarra State Forest Costerfield State Forest Diamond Dam Dunolly-Tarnagulla SF (Murderers Hill-Wet Gully) Kingower State Forest Lockwood South SF Mt. Hooghly SF Redcastle State Forest (Holt’s Flat) Sandon State Forest Sedgwick State Forest One-Eye State Forest Within the SMZ: -protect all large trees (refer to the Management Standards and Procedures clause 4.1.3.1 f) for Bendigo FMA SMZ habitat tree prescriptions); and -exclude all management activities likely to disturb Swift Parrots while the birds are foraging within the area. Review Swift Parrot SMZs if new information arises. Central Highland FMAs Baw Baw Frog Philoria frosti Maintain a SPZ over the potential habitat envelope of the Baw Baw Frog, based on the distribution of known frog localities (Victorian Biodiversity Atlas) and modelling of the distribution of breeding habitat (Liu and White 1999). Central Highland FMAs Phascogale tapoatafa Maintain a minimum of 30% of suitable habitat within SPZ. Central Highland FMAs Possum Protect 30 % of Ash forest from timber harvesting operations in each LMU considering the following factors for selection of retained patches: - the aim to retain patches least likely to burn during bushfires;
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