Soil and Regolith Attributes for CRA/RFA Model Resolution Upper and Lower North East CRA Regions

The NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation, NSW State Forests, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Rural Sciences (Canberra) have jointly contributed to providing soil landscape coverage to produce soil attribute themes for both the upper-north east and lower north-east CRA regions.

Starting in late 1997 with successful completion in August 1999, this project provides soil attribute data on essential inputs for many modelling projects within the NSW CRA/RFA process (e.g., individual plant and animal species distributions, extent and pre-European distribution of vegetation communities, and site quality and associated fertility of timber resources).

Complete coverage of both upper-north east and lower north-east CRA regions of soil landscapes and associated soil attribute themes of soil fertility, effective rooting depth and estimated available water-holding capacity have been generated to assist in CRA vegetation modelling. The coverage is supplied on compact disc. Additionally, 1625 profiles were described as part of this project and are available on the NSW SALIS at DLWC (Parramatta).

The NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation is currently undertaking an upgrading of the soil landscape coverage and compilation of an associated ACCESS database ( to store soil landscape information) for all non-published areas. It is anticipated that the updated coverage and database will be available by the end of 2001.

• Publication details
  
• Project summary

1. Introduction
   
   1.1 Background
   
   
2. Methodology
   
   2.1 Scope of project
   2.2 Setting goals and responsibilities
   
3. Outputs
   
   3.1 Soil profile information
   3.2 Soil landscape coverage
   3.3 Use of data

• Appendix 1 CRA soil profile observation card
  
• References