MidCoast Council Flying-fox Camp Management Plan
2.5.6
Community reported issues related to the camp
Council has not received any formal complaints about this camp. Issues related to the camp that have been reported by the community are significantly less than those reported at the other target camps. Tennis court users have reported droppings on the tennis courts as a nuisance as: • • •
they are difficult to clean off the synthetic surface damage tennis balls if they land in the dropping present a safety concern (slips and falls).
Some general reports of odour, noise and dropping issues, and disease concerns have been received, however these were in relation to flying-foxes in general and not specifically the Pacific Palms camp. The Community Centre Coordinator reported limited conflict with the centre operations as it is generally hired during the day.
2.5.7
Management response to date
Council have undertaken seasonal flying-fox monitoring four times a year at the Pacific Palms camp since Augusts 2018. No other flying-fox related management actions have been implemented as of March 2021.
2.6
Smiths Lake camp
2.6.1
Location and setting
The Smiths Lake camp is located on the Smiths Lake peninsula (Figure 15). The primary roost area is located along a gully south of Casson Street on both private and Council land. Residential (village) lots adjoin the camp to the east, north and west. A recently approved holiday accommodation facility (i.e. a private campground) is located to the south-east. An occasionally occupied secondary roost is located in a separate gully north of Casson Street in a Council reserve. The reserve is surrounded by residential (village) lots. The combined recorded camp footprint for the primary and secondary roost is 5.2 ha, with the primary roost covering 2.1 ha and the secondary roost covering 3.1 ha. The actual occupied roost area is dynamic and moves overtime within this mapped area. Vegetation mapping showing indicative DPIE BioNet PCTs at the camp are displayed in Figure 16 and include: •
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Wet sclerophyll forests: o PCT 1567 Tallowwood - Brush Box - Sydney Blue Gum moist shrubby tall open forest on foothills of the lower North Coast o PCT 699 Blackbutt tall moist forest of the coastal ranges of the central and southern NSW North Coast Bioregion Rainforest: o PCT 1201 Soft Corkwood - Yellow Carabeen - Cryptocarya spp. subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion.
The mapped PCTs comprise potential flying-fox roosting habitat and are centred around the rainforest. The total area of contiguous potential roosting habitat at the camp is 14.9 ha.
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