DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Management Issues
| Fire | Vegetation Clearance | Threatened Plants | Invasive Plants |
Current threats to native vegetation in the region include factors such as fire regimes, vegetation clearance, invasive plants, introduction of superphosphate and ploughing. Linear remnants of native grasslands are being destroyed by changes to management practices. In fact, in its final recommendations, the Scientific Advisory Committee determined that:
 | ' Western (Basalt) Plains Grassland is in a demonstrable state of decline which is likely to result in extinction. The community is significantly prone to future threats which are likely to result in extinction and the community is very rare in terms of that total area it covers’ (Muir 1999). | |
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This document was last reviewed on 30/10/2008