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Recommendations pasture composition .
• Heavy grazing encourages domination of Indian couch and reduced productivity .
Land Use Limitations • Use of fire ( 4-5 years ) after storm rain to address woodland thickening and maintain desirable pasture composition .
• Weed invasion ( chinee apple , giant rat ' s tail grass ).
• Establishment problems with improved pastures ( stylos ) due to high incidence of frosts .
Conservation Features and • These woodlands , particularly more mature hollow-bearing
Related Management trees , provide important habitat and nesting sites for arboreal mammals including yellow-bellied gliders and koalas . Also provide habitat for the Eungella hairy daisy Ozothamnus eriocephalus .
• Areas may have been subject to clearing / timber harvesting and grazing and , hence , are vulnerable to invasion by weeds such as grader grass , lantana , rubbervine .
Regional Ecosystems 8.12.7a , 9.8.1a-b , 9.8.4a-c , 11.8.14 .
Land Units ; Agricultural Hillgrove , Felspar , Nulla , Pin Gin , Newlands . Management Unit ; Soil Associations