Introduction and background - What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife? - page 2

Figure 1.1: The location of Australia's temperate woodlands. (Source: Johnson (2003) based on Atlas of
Australian Resources - Vegetation 1990 , prepared by Troy Honeman and Will Smith)
vegetation cover has been modified extensively by clearing and/or grazing. Most of
our work has been based on studies on the South West Slopes of New South Wales,
but we anticipate that many of the management suggestions that we make in this
topic will be relevant to temperate woodland environments elsewhere in south-
eastern Australia.
The woodlands of the South West Slopes of New South Wales
A number of different types of woodland communities occur in the South West
Slopes, all of which can be identified by the dominant overstorey species. Unique
combinations of soils, climate and landscape position determine which plants will
flourish at a particular place. One common type of woodland is Box-Gum grassy
woodland, a threatened ecological community which is dominated by White Box
Eucalyptus albens , Blakely's Red Gum E. blakelyi and Yellow Box E. melliodora .