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Lake Innes Nature Reserve Plan of Management

Includes Innes Ruins Historic Site

Lake Innes Nature Reserve is located on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, approximately 400 kilometres north of Sydney. It covers an area of approximately 3,510 hectares on the southern boundary of Port Macquarie.
Publisher: NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Cost: Free
Language: English
ISBN: 0-73136-0591 / ID: OEH20160439
File: PDF 218.2 KB / Pages 39
Name: lake-innes-nature-reserve-plan-of-management-160439.pdf
 
Tags: Plan of managementFinal

The nature reserve contains significant natural and cultural resources. The vegetation complexes include wetlands dry heath, saltmarshes and open forests result in high species diversity.

This plan covers, in addition to the gazetted nature reserve, a section of the Lake Innes peninsula which is not yet formally gazetted as part of Lake Innes Nature Reserve. The peninsula contains the ruins of Innes House, a major historic monument to pre-1850 settlement of the region.

Note: The unreserved lands covered by this adopted plan were reserved as Innes Ruins Historic Site in 2003, following the plan’s adoption. As a result, this plan of management covers Innes Ruins Historic Site as well as Lake Innes Nature Reserve

Photo: Lake Innes Nature Reserve. Credit: John Spencer/OEH