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Pre-European Vegetation (DPIRD-006)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 24/10/2025

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The pre-European vegetation mapping of Western Australia dataset is an output of a joint project. It maps original natural vegetation presumed to have existed prior to European settlement in Western Australia. Descriptions of each of the vegetation types can be found in the accompanying memoir. The major sources of data in this database are the published and unpublished mapping of J.S. Beard at 1:250,000 scale. There are c 30,000 polygons covering 160 1:250,000 map sheets. Data on the original vegetation of all of Western Australia, with the exception of three map sheets in the south-west corner, were captured from J S Beard’s original working drawings, where these were available, or from published maps, all at the scale of 1:250,000. For the three map sheets in the south-west corner, a new data set was compiled in a form consistent with Beard’s approach, from existing data (A.J.M. Hopkins, unpublished). Also published as Beard, J. S., Beeston, G.R., Harvey, J.M., Hopkins, A. J. M. and Shepherd, D. P. 2013. The vegetation of Western Australia at the 1:3,000,000 scale. Explanatory memoir. Second edition. Conservation Science Western Australia 9: 1-152.

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Title Pre-European Vegetation (DPIRD-006)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/90bc5622-bc12-4d0a-8b49-6be27dcf0e91
Remote Last Updated 16/10/2025
Contact Point
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
gis.support@dpird.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 10/11/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Pre-European Vegetation (DPIRD-006)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/pre-european-dpird-006