NATIONAL WILDERNESS RED INDEX

Published by the Colong Foundation for Wilderness Ltd. 30/09/94
Level 2, 332 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000.
Ph (02) 9261 2400; Fax (02) 9261 2144.

Name:

JACK RIVER

Nominated by:

Not recorded

Location:

South of Cape Melville, 50 km north-west of Cooktown.

Size
For size and tenure information contact the Colong Foundation.

DESCRIPTION

The area consists of a sedimentary basin of Jurassic sandstone bounded in the
east by ranges of Devonian sandstones. The ranges rise to a height of about 500
metres above the plain. The Jack Lakes which lie on the plain are clay basins
filled from the overflow of the main creeks draining the basin. [1]

Vegetation in the basin is primarily woodland dominated by melaleucas, eucalypts
and Barringtonia gracilis. Small pockets of gallery rainforest may be found
along streams. Eucalypts take over in hilly areas and on the ranges. Patches of
rainforest and heath occur where conditions are locally favourable. [2]

Little information is available about the area's fauna.

STATE FORESTS

ENDANGERED SPECIES

LAND USE HISTORY

CONSERVATION HISTORY

THREATS

GRAZING
The area has been subject to grazing by cattle and much of it is presently held
under pastoral leases. [3]

CONTACTS

No contacts are recorded from that area.
ENDNOTES
1
Prineas, 1986.

2
Prineas, 1986.

3
Prineas, 1986.

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