This document is the pest management strategy for the Northern Rivers Region, which is located on the far North Coast of NSW, and stretches from Grafton in the south, north to the Queensland border at Tweed Heads and west to near Killarney.
Hayters Hill Nature Reserve is located 5 kilometres south-west of Byron Bay on the far north coast of New South Wales. It is one of a few small nature reserves that conserve rainforests typical of the once extensive Big Scrub and is part of the country of the Bundjalung of Byron Bay (Arakwal) people.
The Big Scrub was once the largest continuous tract of sub-tropical rainforest in Australia, covering 75,000 hectares of the rich basalt soils to the east and north of Lismore on the north coast of New South Wales. Today only about 100 hectares remains as isolated patches. Six significant remnants, Boatharbour, Victoria Park, Davis Scrub, Andrew Johnston Big Scrub and Wilson, are nature reserves dedicated under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.
The Big Scrub Nature Reserves Plan of Management includes Andrew Johnston Big Scrub, Victoria Park, Davis Scrub, Hayters Hill, Boatharbour and Wilson Nature Reserves.
