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Southern Wilderness Assessment

This wilderness assessment was part of the Southern Comprehensive Regional Assessment (CRA) of forests. It incorporated most of the South Coast, the NSW Alps and the southern parts of the South-West Slopes.

The assessment had two objectives:

• to provide information on wilderness values to the CRA process
• to fulfil the state government's obligations under the Wilderness Act.

The NPWS identified 200,484 hectares of wilderness within the Southern CRA Region of NSW. The assessment report was on public exhibition from 5 March to 28 May 2001. The public exhibition provided an opportunity for the community to comment on the assessment process and the declaration options presented in the report.

You can download the report below, together with the the colour posters which accompanied it on public exhibition.

Documents to download

The report is available in PDF format below. Figures are not included in the main report document - download the ones you need.

• Southern Wilderness Assessment Report (PDF - 1.3MB)
  
  
• Figures:
  • Figure 1 (PDF - 450KB)
  • Figure 2 (PDF - 916KB)
  • Figure 3 (PDF - 932KB)
  • Figure 4 (PDF - 956KB)
  • Figure 5 (PDF - 703KB)
  • Figure 6 (PDF - 699KB)
  • Figure 7 (PDF - 245KB)
  • Figure 8 (PDF - 237KB)
  • Figure 9 (PDF - 1MB)
  • Figure 10 (PDF - 732KB)
  • Figure 11 (PDF - 736KB)
  • Figure 12 (PDF - 390KB)
  • Figure 13 (PDF - 307KB)
  • Figure 14 (PDF - 375KB)
  • Figure 15 (PDF - 439KB)
  • Figure 16 (PDF - 443KB)
  • Figure 17 (PDF - 181KB)
  • Figure 18 (PDF - 182KB)
  • Figure 19 (PDF - 202KB)
  • Figure 20 (PDF - 201KB)
  • Figure 21 (PDF - 220KB)
  • Figure 22 (PDF - 198KB)
  • Figure 23 (PDF - 450KB)
  • Figure 24 (PDF - 452KB)
  • Figure 25 (PDF - 204KB)
  • Figure 26 (PDF - 203KB)
  • Figure 27 (PDF - 188KB)
  • Figure 28 (PDF - 141KB)
  • Figure 29 (PDF - 196KB)
  • Figure 30 (PDF - 196KB)
  • Figure 31 (PDF - 257KB)
  • Figure 32 (PDF - 255KB)
  • Figure 33 (PDF - 753KB)
  • Figure 34 (PDF - 752KB)
  • Figure 35 (PDF - 750KB)
  • Figure 36 (PDF - 748KB)
  • Figure 37 (PDF - 523KB)
  • Figure 38 (PDF - 525KB)
  • Figure 39 (PDF - 523KB)
  • Figure 40 (PDF - 521KB)
  • Figure 41 (PDF - 253KB)
  • Figure 42 (PDF - 249KB)
  • Figure 43 (PDF - 248KB)
  • Figure 44 (PDF - 247KB)
    
    
• Public exhibition colour posters:
  • Morton-Budawang Area (PDF - 844K)
  • Far South Coast Area (PDF - 840K)
  • Northern Kosciuszko Area (PDF - 448K)
  • Southern Kosciuszko Area (PDF - 796K)

More information

• Find out more about the process of identifying, declaring and managing wilderness.