Environmental conservation

The total canopy cover area (132 ha) as a proportion of total Environmental Conservation land use area is 22.9%.

Most of the land zoned as Environmental Conservation is located in the south of the study area. The suburb of Moorong contains the highest canopy cover, resulting from vegetation located on the Soil Conservation Service land holdings, and Silvalite Reserve. Smaller areas of Environmental Conservation land are located in riparian areas in North Wagga Wagga, the Willans Hill ridgeline through Tatton, Bourkelands and Springvale, and also the Birramal Conservation Area in Lloyd. Figure 14 shows a breakdown of Environmental Conservation land area and canopy by suburb.

Figure 14: Canopy cover as a proportion of Environmental Conservation land use area. Total canopy cover over total Environmental Conservation land use area is 22.9%