Violet Town Landscape Zone
The Violet Town Landscape Zone is located within the Goulburn Broken Catchment of Victoria. The Zone, which is approximately 126,409 hectares, is within sections of the Victorian Riverina and Northern Inland Slopes Bioregions and the Local Government area of Greater Shepparton City Council, Strathbogie and Rural City of Benalla. Since European settlement much of the vegetation in the Zone has been cleared, leaving a fragmented landscape, with many of the remnants being highly modified.
Violet Town BAP Zone Conservation Plan
BAP Conservation Plans above have been developed to help provide biodiversity conservation actions at a local level. These plans have built on knowledge and information contained within more broad scale bioregional and landscape plans which have been developed by the Department of Sustainability and Environment. These broad-scale plans have provided the bioregional and landscape scale planning for which these more local scale BAP Conservation Plans are based. For more information see the Additional Information section of this CD. Broadly, the BAP Conservation Plans detail:
The Violet Town BAP Zone Conservation Plan is available by clicking HERE.
BAP Mapping for the Violet Town Landscape Zone
Through the BAP process, a combination of desktop analysis and limited ground-truthing has been used to map priority sites. The maps of the priority sites for the Violet Town Landscape Zone can be viewed by clicking HERE.
An explanation of the data provided in the attribute table can be found in the BAP Attribute Table Definitions document. The prioritisation method is outlined in the Developer’s Manual for Biodiversity Action Planning in the Goulburn Broken Catchment.
Landscape Context Map for the Violet Town Landscape Zone
The Landscape Context Model (Ferwerda, 2003) aims to provide a vision for the BAP zone that moves towards landscapes that are more functional and sustainable. It highlights high priority areas for restoration where the assumption is that if we invest in doing works in these areas we will maximise the biodiversity outcome from these works. Small, isolated patches of vegetation have less of a long term future in terms of their value for flora and fauna, than large, well connected patches. The LCM categorises the BAP zone into High, Medium and Low connectivity priority areas. The LCM should be used complementary with the BAP mapping as it provides the strategic vision for a BAP zone (large scale planning tool), while the BAP sites aim to conserve 'the best of what's left' (smaller site-based scale).
The maps of the Landscape Context Model for the Violet Town Landscape Zone can be viewed by clicking HERE
GIS Data
This mapping information is also provided as a BAP GIS layer. There is a significant amount of information stored within the associated attribute table. Please refer to the BAP users guide to ArcView for instructions on how to access and query this information in ArcView. Further information on BAP mapping is contained within the BAP Zone Conservation Plans.
A metadata document provides more detailed information on BAP metadata, including a description of the dataset, currency, status, access, quality and contact details regarding Biodiversity Action Planning (BAP) data for the Goulburn Broken Catchment.
The Landscape Context Model is also provided as a LCM GIS layer.