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:

PALMGROVE

Nominated by:

Not recorded

Location:

Not recorded

Size
For size and tenure information contact the Colong Foundation.

DESCRIPTION

The Palmgrove area occupies a central position on the Bigge Range in
Queensland's Central Highlands, a region characterised by sandstoenes of Permian
and Triassic age. Rugged sandstone escarpments and gorges are a prominent
feature of the area, with the highest mountains rising to about 800 metres above
sea level. The northern escarpment drops steeply over cliffs of sandstone to the
brigalow lowlands of the Bowen coal measures. [1]

The high, dissected country of the Bigge Range supports forests of Narrow Leaf
Ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra) and bloodwood (E. watsoniana), E. polycarpa, with
intermittent Spotted Gum, E. maculata and Angophora costata. In the north the
eucalypt forest grades into brigalow and bonewood scribs as the descent is made
into lower country, this scrub community quickly giving way to cleared brigalow
agricultural lands. [2]

Fauna within this area is similar to that found in the Carnarvon area not far to
the west. [3]

STATE FORESTS

PALMGROVE contains the following state forests:
Reedy Creek

ENDANGERED SPECIES

LAND USE HISTORY


Becaus of the rough and broken nature of the country, access to the area is
difficult. Past use of the area has been limited to some logging of the Redy
Creek State Forest which comprises the southern half. [4]

CONSERVATION HISTORY

THREATS

CONTACTS

No contacts are recorded from that area.
ENDNOTES
1
Prineas, P., Lembit, R., Fisher, N., 1986, "Australia's Wilderness An Inventory"

2
Prineas, 1986.

3
Prineas, 1986.

4
Prineas, 1986.

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