Yanga National Park, Yanga State Conservation Area and Yanga Nature Reserve Draft Plan of Management

Abstract

Yanga National Park, Yanga State Conservation Area and Yanga Nature Reserve are collectively referred to as the ‘Yanga parks’ or ‘the parks’ in this plan. The parks are located on the floodplain of the Lower Murrumbidgee River (the ‘Lowbidgee’) at the western edge of the Riverina agricultural region, about 8 kilometres outside of Balranald. The town of Hay is about 128 kilometres to the east of the parks, and the Victorian border is about 50 kilometres to the south (see Figure 1). The national park has 160 kilometres of the Murrumbidgee River frontage starting from a point about 5 kilometres east of Balranald and extending upstream almost to the Great Cumbung Swamp. A small separate portion of the national park to the south-west of Balranald, with an area of about 12 hectares, also fronts the Murrumbidgee River.