ZONE 4 Tom's Lake (TL) Floodplain distributary channel Pt1.2.1 Intermittent black box floodplain swamp Black box/river cooba/lignum 2 0 Lake Tarwong (LT) Floodplain wetland Channel mound wetland Pt1.2.1 Intermittent black box floodplain swamp/ Pt1.1.1: Intermittent River red gum floodplain swamp Black box/river cooba/lignum River red gum 4 2 ZONE 5 Booligal (BO) Floodplain distributary channel Pt1.2.1 Intermittent black box floodplain swamp Black box/river cooba/lignum 2 2 Murrumbidgil Swamp (MB) Channel mound wetland Pt1.1.1: Intermittent River red gum floodplain swamp River red gum 4 4 Table . Wetland watering observations 2015-16. 1 Watering categories were defined as follows: D= Dry, WN = watering of adjacent wetland, PW = partially wet/inundated, W = wet/inundated OBSERVATION NOTES SOURCE OF WATER WATERING CATEGORY1 Oct./Nov. 2015 May/June 2016 SITE (CODE) Transect Plot Transect Plot Transect Plot Transect Plot ZONE 1 Hazelwood (HW) 15% dry dry dry Up to 20% of the transects had been under water Translucent releases PW D
Whealbah (WB) 85% dry 5% dry Maximum of 90% of the transects under water (2015) Translucent releases W WN Moon Moon (MM) 100% 100% dry dry Translucent releases and Water: Action 1 W W ZONE 2 Lake Bullogal (LBU) dry dry dry dry No water reached the monitoring locations N/A D D The Ville (TV) 15% dry dry dry Up to 20% of the transect had been under water Water had been onto two of the plots Translucent releases PW D ZONE 3 Lake Ita (LI) Not sampled dry No water reached the monitoring locations N/A D Clear Lake (CL) dry dry The area had been watered – but there was no evidence that the plots had received water N/A WN Nooran Lake (NL) 55% dry dry dry Evidence of water over part of the plots Commonwealth water (Actions 1 and 3) and Translucent releases PW WN Lake Marrool (LM) dry dry dry dry Evidence of water over approx. 30% of transects Translucent releases PW WN ZONE 4
Tom's Lake (TL) 85% dry Evidence of water over 95% of one plot Commonwealth water: Action 1 PW Lake Tarwong (LT) dry dry dry dry D D ZONE 5 Booligal (BO) 5% dry 20% dry up to 25% of the transects had been under water (2016) Evidence of water over 20% of one plot Commonwealth water: Action 1 PW PW Murrumbidgil Swamp (MB) 30% 3% Not sampled Not sampled up to 45% of the transects had been under water (2015) Evidence of water over 10% of one plot Commonwealth water: Action 1 PW WN
Table . The average number of seedlings and saplings per site. SITE FLOODPLAIN/ WETLAND COMPLEX LANDUSE GRAZING INTENSITY RECRUITMENT (<0.2 to >3.0 m) Trip Autumn 2015 Spring 2015 Autumn 2016 Red gum community Hazelwood Lachlan River Floodplain Grazing (sheep) Recent and frequent 35 35 41 Whealbah Lachlan River Floodplain Grazing (sheep) Recent and occasional 740 315 926 Moon Moon Swamp Booligal Wetlands Grazing (cattle) Recent and frequent 13 100% flooded 73 Nooran Lake Great Cumbung Swamp Grazing (cattle) Recent and frequent 14 40 38 Lake Marrool Great Cumbung Swamp Grazing Recent and occasional 2 3 1 Murrumbidgil Swamp Booligal Wetlands Grazing (sheep) Recent and frequent 211 320 no visit Lake Bullogal Lachlan Swamp Grazing (sheep – large numbers) Recent and frequent 0 0 0 Lake Tarwong Merrowie/Box Creek Grazing (sheep) Recent and frequent 237 136 91 Clear Lake Cumbung Swamp Grazing (cattle) Recent and frequent 61 29 23 Black box community Booligal wetland Booligal Wetlands Nature conservation Low 44 75 43 Tom’s Lake Booligal Wetlands Grazing (cattle) Recent and frequent 1 16 41 Lake Tarwong Merrowie/Box Creek Grazing (sheep) Recent and frequent 0 6 1 Mixed Red Gum, River Cooba and Black Box The Ville Lachlan Swamp Nature conservation Low 42 45 157 Lake Ita Lachlan River Floodplain Nature conservation Low no visit 3 Lake Ita (Inlet) Lachlan River Floodplain Nature conservation Low 3 All of the sites that received environmental water in 2015-16 received either a combination of Commonwealth water and translucent flows or only translucent flow. This means that the relative contribution of the different sources of environmental water (Commonwealth environmental watering actions or translucent flows) are generally unable to be disentangled. Learning from the combined watering actions will help develop an understanding of the vegetation responses to watering and in combination with future