Name: NSW Potential Lands for Woody Biomass Crops - 5km

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Description: This layer has been created to provide a broad outline of land across NSW that may be potentially suitable for growing woody biomass crops. This layer was created using existing spatial datasets with rules applied to reclassify the data. Landuse terms have been incorporated into the assigned class names to help users know the underlying landuse applied by the Department of Planning and Environment. Assigned classes identified as potentially suitable include lands where growing woody biomass crops could be incorporated into the landscape alongside existing land practices. The assigned names are generally self-explanatory and include Potential-Cropping, Potential-GrazingPastures, Potential-GrazingNative, Potential-ModifiedPastures, Potential-Mining/Quarries, Potential-TransitionLands and Potential-Other (other minimal use) lands. ​Although agricultural land such as that used for cropping is identified as potentially suitable, woody biomass crops should typically be considered only in the marginal, unproductive portions of those lands. Potential suitable areas less than 1ha have been excluded because woody biomass crops would not be considered in such small areas. Other excluded areas include native woody vegetation, forestry plantations, protected lands such as nature conservation areas, stock routes, defence lands, horticultural lands, intensive livestock lands, urban areas and infrastructure, marshes, wetlands, estuaries and water. This layer provides an indication of where, to the best of our knowledge, there are no impediments for biomass crops to be established in NSW. Ultimately, decisions on the exact locations of where the crops may be actually established are made by the landholder. For example, considerations will need to be made around regulations protecting both native woody vegetation and native groundcover (natural grasslands) vegetation. Native woody vegetation is well captured in the NSW Native Vegetation Extent dataset by the Department of Planning and Environment and has therefore been excluded from this spatial layer, but native groundcover vegetation is not well captured spatially in any existing data sources with high accuracy at a statewide extent. Native groundcover could occur anywhere in the landscape. The NSW Local Land Services (LLS) manage the NSW Land Management Framework and can provide information and assistance to landholders in identifying if an area of native groundcover has a low, moderate or high conservation value (see https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/1192190/Clearing-native-groundcover.pdf). The quality of native groundcover needs to be known and protected, particularly if it is High Conservation Value (HCV) native groundcover. The conservation value considers how modified or disturbed a groundcover/natural grassland is. In many landscapes grasslands have been disturbed or modified since European settlement and have a low conservation value meaning the landuse can be changed (i.e. grazing to cropping). The source datasets used to create this layer were the NSW Native Vegetation Extent 5m Raster v1.2 (© State Government of NSW and Department of Planning and Environment 2019), available on the NSW Government SEED Portal at https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-native-vegetation-extent-5m-raster-v1-0 and the NSW Landuse 2017 v1.2 (© State Government of NSW and Department of Planning and Environment 2020), available on the NSW Government SEED Portal at https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-landuse-2017-v1p2-f0ed. Last updated July 2023.

Copyright Text: NSW Forest Science, Department of Primary Industries - Forestry

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