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:

WABBA

Nominated by:

Not recorded

Location:

Not recorded

Size [1]

26000 ha (nominated)
15600 ha (identified)

TENURE

National Park[2] 15600 ha
Nature Reserve 0 ha
State Forest 9400 ha
Vacant Crown Land 0 ha
Leasehold Land 0 ha
Freehold Land 0 ha
Aboriginal Land 0 ha

Wilderness Declared[3]

15600 ha

Wilderness Not Declared

10400 ha

DESCRIPTION

STATE FORESTS

ENDANGERED SPECIES

LAND USE HISTORY


Squatters established grazing runs centred on the Cudgewa River and its
tributaries in the north of the area with licenced rund including Nariel, Adjie,
Wabba and Reedy Creek from the late 1830s. The river flats of these runs have
been grazed ever since and the present-day freehold lands largely correspond to
the better agricultural sectors of these runs. [4]








It is likely that Aborigines lived in the area since about 10,000 years ago.
Little evidence of Aboriginal occupation remains (other than a fish trap found
on the Gibbo River on the south-eastern edge of the block - the only site
recoded by the Victorian Archaeological Society). The area has not been subject
to detailed survey. [5]

CONSERVATION HISTORY

THREATS

CONTACTS

No contacts are recorded from that area.
ENDNOTES
1
This area is taken from The Wilderness Society, 1990, "Wilderness Special
Investigation Descriptive Report Submission to the Land Conservation Council"

2
Most of the area is within Wabba Wilderness Area.

3
Sandpatch Wilderness Zone was declared in 1992, following LCC final
recommendations.

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