COLLECTOR BUSHRANGERS RESERVE
The Collector Bushrangers Reserve is a parcel of around 200 acres of Crown Land dedicated in 2003 for the purposes of Public Recreation, Tourist Facilities and Services and Environmental Protection under the Crown Lands Act 1989. 
The Reserve is managed by a Trust of volunteers appointed by the NSW Minister of Lands. The current Trust was appointed in April 2009, and their term expires in May 2014.
The Collector Bushrangers Reserve has its origins as a community common, and contains within it a unique chain of ponds and native grassland that has remained relatively undisturbed. The Reserve encompasses an area of high-value remnant Natural Temperate Grassland of the Southern Tablelands of NSW and the Australian Capital Territory which has an Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) listing status of being an endangered ecological community.
Since its rededication in May 2003, the Trust has:
- worked to establish and have adopted by the NSW Minister for Lands a Plan of Management (1.5mb pdf file).
- adopted a draft landscape plan (137kb zipped file - extract to view word documents) in accordance with the adopted Plan of Management
- developed a Vegetation Management Plan (2.3mb pdf file) a key objective of the adopted Plan of Management.
The vegetation management plan was partly funded by the National Recovery Team for Native Temperate Grasslands, and with their assistance, the Trust engaged a team of grasslands species experts and land management planning specialists to develop a series of recommended actions to preserve the areas of the Reserve with outstanding environmental and remnant populations.
The current focus of the Trust is to work towards the implementation of the Plan of Management and the recommendations contained in the Vegetation Management Plan.
For further enquiries and information, see the contact us page.
See the Gallery for a selection of images of the Reserve taken after June rain in 2007.