Long Grass Nature Refuge

 

The Long Grass Nature Refuge is a private wildlife refuge registered with the Queensland EPA.

 

Located on 1200 acres of pristine bushland on an elevated plateau on the edge of the great dividing range, the property is about 35km SW of Gatton and lies between the Darling Downs and the Lockyer Valley.

 

It directly adjoins the southern boundary of the Dywers Scrub Conservation Park and is dominated by two deep sandstone gorges with impressive escarpments and rock formations. The beds of the gorges have rainforest, and the upper escarpments have eucalypt and ironbark woodland.

 

The refuge is mostly remnant vegetation that is part of a larger core habitat area identified as having State nature conservation significance in the Queensland Government 'Regional Nature Conservation Strategy for South East Queensland 2003-2008.'

 

Click here to see where the nature refuge is on the map Map of Long Grass Nature Refuge

 

and the following regional ecosystems listed as 'not of concern'

• 12.9-10.19 (Eucalyptus fibrosa open forest on sedimentary rocks)
• 12.8.14 (Eucalyptus eugenioides, E.tericornis, E.melliodora open forest on cainozoic igneous rocks)
• 12.8.17 (Eucalyptus crebra, E.melanophloia woodland on cainozoic igneous rocks)
• 12.3.7 (Eucalyptus terticornis, Callistemon viminalis, Casuarina cunninghamiana fringing forest)