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Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 04/03/2026

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The aim of this project is to compile land use and management practices and their observed and measured impacts and effects on vegetation condition. The results provide land managers and researchers with a tool for reporting and monitoring spatial and temporal transformations of Australia’s native vegetated landscapes due to changes in land use and management practices. Following are the details about Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station in ACT, Australia.

Pre-European benchmark-analogue vegetation: the original vegetation for the site Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station was a temperate grassland in an ecological community dominated by native species of perennial tussock grasses.

Brief chronology of changes in land use and management:

  • Up to late 1820s the area was managed by indigenous Ngunnawal people
  • 1830s: Area first grazed by sheep and cattle with the aid of shepherds
  • 1860: Fences were established and continuous stocking commenced
  • 1900: Patches of woodland areas on higher ground were partly cleared
  • 1900-39: High likelihood of moderate to heavy grazing pressure due to sheep and cattle
  • 1940-1993: Area managed as a naval transmission station
  • 1940-92: Area managed for sheep grazing under continuous grazing
  • 1970: Secure people and kangaroo proof fence established
  • 1993: Sheep removed from the site
  • 1995: mowers used to manage the grass
  • 1997-2008: Kangaroo population increased to unacceptable levels
  • 2006: Naval transmission towers demolished, area continued to have a secure people proof fence
  • 2008: Kangaroo population culled to reduce grazing pressure
  • 2011: Site managed for nature conservation values.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/dfdd1fff-9127-4fbc-840f-73986847e570
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Sue.McIntyre@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1815 - 31/12/2010
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Belconnen Naval Transmitter Station, ACT. VAST-2: Tracking the Transformation of Australia's Vegetated Landscapes". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/belconnen-naval-transmitter-station-act-vast-2-tracking-the-transformation-of-australias-vegeta