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.
Manobalai Nature Reserve is located 20 kilometres west of Muswellbrook and about 200 kilometres north-west of Sydney. The reserve is 3758 hectares in size and directly adjoins a large area of Crown land to the south. The nature reserve and Crown land form part of an important vegetation corridor, with Goulburn River National Park to the south-west and Wollemi National Park to the south.