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Cumberland State Forest, NSW, Regrowth of Compartments 8b, 9a and 9b. VAST- 2: Tracking Vegetation Transformation in Australian Vegetated Landscapes 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Dataset Published: 2012-06-30
Dataset Last Modified: 2026-08-18
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Dataset accessed 4 times
Metadata Created: 2023-05-10
Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19
How to cite this collection:
Thackway, R. (2012). Cumberland State Forest, NSW, Regrowth of Compartments 8b, 9a and 9b. VAST- 2: Tracking Vegetation Transformation in Australian Vegetated Landscapes. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.25901/t1rn-zr29 
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPVegetation score indicator
HTTPLand usage histroy
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URL
HTTPro-crate-metadata.json
The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about the Cumberland State Forest, compartments 8b, 9a and 9b, NSW, Australia.

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: the site was originally a wet sclerophyll forest found on Wianamatta group Ashfield Shale.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:
  • 1788: Area managed by indigenous Darug people
  • 1788-1824: Region explored - un-modified native forest blue gum/ironbark on shale
  • 1825: Parcel selected by shepherd
  • 1826-1907: Grazing cattle on native pastures
  • 1860: Tree cover likely to have been thinned - selective logging
  • 1908: Commenced clearing patches of trees for improved pasture, chooks, orchards
  • 1909-1937: Managed as improved pasture for grazing
  • 1937-38: Purchased by NSW Forestry Commission
  • 1941-42: Area cleared of remaining native forest trees
  • 1946-73: Area managed for education and demonstration - regenerating native forest
  • 1974-84: Area increasing managed for recreation - regenerating native forest
  • 1985-2012: Area managed for recreation - regenerating native forest.
 
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This work was funded by ACEAS, a facility of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project. 
Purpose
Data not provided. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Spatial Description
West Pennant Hills, Cumberland sub-region, Sydney Basin bioregion, NSW. 
Temporal Coverage
From 1788-01-01 to 2012-12-31 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Agricultural land management
Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
Data Stream
Synthesis Product
GCMD Sciences
RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION
VEGETATION - INDIGENOUS VEGETATION
Horizontal Resolution
Point Resolution
Parameters
fire area
fire event count
green ground cover
plant functional type
plant height
soil organic matter
species richness
Project
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Temporal Resolution
irregular
Topic
environment
User Defined
Cattle grazing
Clear fell
Continous grazing
Fencing
Native pasture
Regeneration
Regrowth
Shepherds
State Forest
Timber harvesting
Tree removal
Weed contol
Author
Thackway, Richard
Contact Point
Thackway, Richard
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Resource Provider
Lister, Tim
Stone, Christine
Rawling, Judie
Roche, Morgan
Yates, Tony
Thackway R. and Specht A. (2015). A system for capturing the effects of land use on vegetation condition. Science for the Total Environment, 534: 14-30
Thackway R. (2013). Transformation of Australia’s vegetated landscapes: the development of VAST-2. Zenodo
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