RECOVERY TEAM ANNUAL REPORT
THREATENED SPECIES AND/OR COMMUNITIES RECOVERY TEAM
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Recovery Team
Warren Threatened Flora Recovery Team
Reporting Period
Calendar year 2009
Current membership
Member
Representing
1. Chair
Brad Barton
DEC, Warren Region
2. Exec Officer
Alison Nicols
DEC, Donnelly District
3.
Roger Hearn
Regional Ecologist, DEC, Warren Region
4
Ian Wilson
DEC, Donnelly District
5.
Jo Smith
DEC, Donnelly District
6
Karlene Bain
DEC, Frankland District
7
Janine Liddelow
DEC, Frankland District
8
Cassidy Newland
DEC, Warren Region
9
Ray Cranfield
DEC, Science Division
10
Terry McFarlane
DEC, Herbarium
11
Lachie McCaw
DEC Science
12
Andrew Brown
DEC Species and Communities Branch
13
Ted Middelton
DEC, volunteer, Walpole Nornalup National Parks
Association
14
Pat Dundas
Botanical Artist, volunteer
15
Lee Fontanini
Warren Catchment Council
16
Kathy Collins
Volunteer
17
Jenny Dewing
Blackwood Environment Centre
18
Mavis Sowry
Volunteer, Walpole Nornalup National Parks Association
19
Erica Shedley
Volunteer, DEC Science
Dates meetings were held
No meetings were held
One to two paragraph
summary of achievements
suitable for WATSNU
Change in membership
Alison Nicol replaces Cassidy Newland as executive officer.
List of actions undertaken by Recovery Team
Frankland District
TEC
Mt Lindesay_Little Lindesay Vegetation Complex
Complex burnt October 2009. Majority of burn completed with Karlene Bain (Nature Conservation officer) and Janine
Liddelow (Flora Officer) as the primary personnel and according to pre-determined strategic plan. Unburnt/burnt cells
mapped post-burn from air and ground. Photo diary of areas of intensity. Dieback assessment transects visited post-burn to
record burn intensity.
Post-burn survey of Mt Lindesay TEC plots was begun.
Mt Lindesay-Little Lindesay TEC draft Interim Recovery Plan is under review and near-final.
Reedia spathacea _Epodismia gracillimum-Schoenus multiglumis dominated peat paluslopes of the Warren
Biogeographical region
*See Reedia spathacea summary
Southwest Coastal grassland dominated by Austrostipa flavescens, Poa porphyroclados and Desmocladus
fascicularis
First round of post-burn monitoring of installed plots completed November 2009. Information captured into spreadsheet.
PEC
Lake Surprise Relictual peat community
Vegetation composition mapped. Followed up with Pierre Horowitz to determine specific values of PEC.
Sphagnum communities of the tingle forest
2 new populations of Sphagnum found – one not associated with Tingle.
DRF
Asplenium obtusatum subsp northlandicum
Surveyed mainland population
Banksia verticillata
3 populations surveyed. 1 new subpopulation found.
Pop 15 – all mature, juvenile and seedlings counted and mapped. Seedling survival over summer to be assessed.
Pop 6 – surveyed, Pc sample taken (negative result), cones collected to test for seed viability (nearly 100%)
Pop 26 – surveyed, Vegetation sample of dying hakea taken – confirmed as canker fungi, Several reference areas
representing burnt/unburnt regeneration were selected and collated on.
Caladenia christineae
6 populations surveyed
Caladenia harringtoniae
2 populations surveyed
Conostylis misera
1 population surveyed
Cryptandra congesta
Multiple populations taken in Mt Lindesay burn (October 2009). Included in post burn monitoring project.
Cryptandra congesta IRP approved
Diuris drummondii
2 new subpopulations mapped on private property
Drakaea micrantha
2 populations surveyed
Grevillea fuscolutea
Multiple populations taken in Mt Lindesay burn (October 2009). Included in post burn monitoring project.
Grevillea fuscolutea IRP approved
Kennedia glabrata
Nil action
Laxmannia grandiflora ssp brendae
Multiple populations taken in Mt Lindesay burn (October 2009). Included in post burn monitoring project.
Laxmannia grandiflora ssp. brendae IRP completed and awaiting approval.
Meziella trifida
2 populations surveyed
Microtis globula
Habitat search post burn completed
Rhacocarpus rehmannianus var webbianus
Pop 1 – all gnammas mapped and assessed post wildfire in November 2009
Reedia spathacea
1 population surveyed. Historical information being compiled and revised to present in a format outlining the species
response to fire, pigs and other threats.
Additional NRM funding secured to examine fire response and extend existing fencing.
Sphenotoma drummondii
Nil action
Verticordia apecta
Nil action
Verticordia fimbrilepis ssp australis
Nil action
Priority Flora
Approx 76 new populations recorded
108 known populations priority flora surveyed including:
Andersonia jamesii – habitat search: 1 new population
Rulingia apella – habitat search carried out
Sphaerolobium benetectum – habitat search carried out
Tetratheca sp Kent River – fire response mapping
Warnstorfia fluitans – mapped with Rhacocarpus rehmannianus var webbianus
Aotus franklandii – habitat search carried out
Calothamnus scabridus, Astartea sp Mt Johnson, Verticordia endlicheriana, Chamelaucium forrestii subsp forrestii, Asplenium
aethiopicum – mapped as granite recovery species post intense wildfire
Hybanthus volubilis – pre and post burn fire response mapping
Astartea sp Mt Johnson – population surveys to determine requirement for relisting
Cyathochaete stipoides – fire response plots installed
Hemiandra australis, Lomandra ordii – population extents mapped on both Clarke and Bald islands (Broke Inlet)
Mitreola minima – surveyed as a representative of a fire ephemeral in the Small Grain Mosaic
Donnelly District
TEC
Reedia spathacea _Epodismia gracillimum-Schoenus multiglumis dominated peat paluslopes of the Warren
Biogeographical region
3 new records within the Donnelly District (Cate Tauss), which were incorrectly listed as being in the Frankland District.
Population on Chesapeake Brook surveyed. At least 8ha of habitat containing Reedia spathacea. 2 records at Mt Chudalup
yet to be located and surveyed.
PEC
Epiphytic cryptogams of the Karri forests of south west of Western Australia
In the process of mapping the occurrences within the Dombakup and Warren forest blocks and scoring the condition of each
occurrence.
Black Point PEC
Vegetation survey undertaken at Black Point to determine possible unique candidate communities suspected to be
associated with the Bunbury Basalt.
DRF
Andersonia annelsii
Annual monitoring. Overall population is stable. Plants counted in 1mx1m plots have increased at Site 2 but numbers have
decreased at Site 3 on lower slope. Seedlings tagged in 2007 and 2008 have produced flowers yet.
Brachyschias verucundus
Nil action
Caladenia christineae
1 population monitored to be burnt in autumn. 1 new population recorded.
Caladenia dorrienii
4 populations surveyed
Caladenia harringtoniae
Nil aciton
Caladenia lodgeana
Nil action
Caladenia winfieldii
2008 Monitoring counted 22 flowering plants
2009 monitoring counted 43 flowering plants
Diuris drummondii
1 new population on private property (Great Southern Plantation) yet to be verified with a RFRF.
Grevillea acrapogon
2009 monitoring counted and tagged 32 new plants (seedlings with secondary leaves) and 22 seedlings (not tagged but
marked). 930 seeds collected and sent to TSSC.
Translocation site –
90% survival. Plants look healthy. Chariup block recently burnt off an exclusion track creating a 200m buffer around the site.
Plantings to replace dead plants and in-fill to be undertaken end of May.
Second potential translocation site has been found on Great Southern Plantation remnant vegetation adjacent to proposed
NP
Kennedia glabrata
2 populations surveyed with very low numbers of small plants.
Meziella trifida
4 populations monitored and surveyed. 3 new populations recorded.
Rhacocarpus rehmannianus var webbianus
Nil action
Reedia spathacea
1 Mt. Chudalup population surveyed post prescribed burn. Lignotubers intact.
Verticordia densiflora var. pendunculata
Nil action
Priority Flora
Approx 40 new populations recorded
128 known populations priority flora surveyed including:
Bossiaea sp. ‘Frankland’ P1– mapped extent of population, notified GSP and ITC
Scaevola ballajupensis P1 – monitored
Caladenia erythrochila P2 – new population recorded. 1 population surveyed post prescribed burn
Calytrix sp. ‘Tutunup’ P2 – population surveyed
Diuris heberlei P2 – population verified with a RFRF requires surveying
Kunzea micrantha ssp. hirtiflora P2- 3 new populations recorded
Leptinella drummondii P2 – 7 new populations recorded
Cyathochaeta stipoides P3 – fire response plots monitored
Stylidium leeuwinense P3 – fire response plots monitored
Synaphea decumbens P3 – fire response plots monitored
Acacia oncinophylla ssp patulifolia – fire response plot installed
Assessment of progress
towards meeting criteria
for success (from Recovery
Plan)
Assessment against criteria
for failure (from Recovery
Plan)
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