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

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 10/01/2026

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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.

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Title Cumberland State Forest, NSW, Regrowth of Compartments 8b, 9a and 9b. VAST- 2: Tracking Vegetation Transformation in Australian Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5c465d32-d326-42e4-8761-430b8bf5175a
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
rthackway@netspeed.com.au
Reference Period 01/01/1788 - 31/12/2012
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Cumberland State Forest, NSW, Regrowth of Compartments 8b, 9a and 9b. VAST- 2: Tracking Vegetation Transformation in Australian Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/cumberland-state-forest-nsw-regrowth-of-compartments-8b-9a-and-9b-vast-2-tracking-vegetation-tr