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Organ Pipes National Park, Volcanic Plains Bioregion, VIC. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

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Updated 25/06/2025

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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 Organ Pipes National Park, Volcanic Plains Bioregion, Victoria.

Pre-European reference-analogue vegetation: Treeless basalt plain predominantly grassland dominated by Kangaroo Grass Themeda triandra with an array of inter-tussock species.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management: 1830: Indigenous people manage the area 1835: Sheep grazing commenced (shepherds) 1851: Alienated from the Crown as freehold and fenced 1851-1965: Area managed for dairying, an orchard and cropping and grazing modified pastures 1965: Agricultural production abandoned 1965-1986: Area minimally managed 1972: Organ Pipes National Park declared 1986-1992: Commenced species re-introduced site with supplemental plantings. Area managed to control weed and further incursions 1989-2003: Repeated monitoring. Area lightly grazed by rabbits and macropods 1993: Site burnt [prescribed fire]; supplemental re-vegetation with indigenous local species 1995: Site was burnt [prescribed fire] 1997: Site was burnt [prescribed fire] followed by drought 2003: Ceased monitoring and enhancement to the site 2004-10: Minimal intervention.

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Title Organ Pipes National Park, Volcanic Plains Bioregion, VIC. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/db820e3b-9d83-457e-ba4a-23f6810c0e03
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
rthackway@netspeed.com.au
Reference Period 01/01/1788 - 31/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    -37.673678
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Organ Pipes National Park, Volcanic Plains Bioregion, VIC. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/organ-pipes-national-park-volcanic-plains-bioregion-vic-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-a