This document is the pest management strategy for the Central Coast Hunter region. The area includes Gosford, Wyong, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Cessnock, Maitland, Upper Hunter Shire and the Liverpool Plains shire.
Burning Mountain Nature Reserve is situated in highly folded terrain approximately 25 kilometres north of Scone adjacent to the New England Highway. Although small in area, the reserve’s 14.5 hectares conserves interesting features which have resulted from the naturally occurring burning of an underground coal seam, believed to be one of only three such phenomenon in the world.