Thanks go to Budgietas and gooseandegg for placing this cache.

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Sloping Main Reserve

Overlooking Frederick Henry Bay on the Tasman Peninsula, Sloping Main Reserve protects a rich mosaic of native vegetation, including ten threatened vegetation communities – a diversity of threatened vegetation greater than on any other TLC reserve. Extended in 2023 and covering 670 hectares, this property also features a large, nationally vulnerable saltmarsh. This saltmarsh has very high conservation values, both because of the vegetation it supports and because it is habitat for many wetland species including migratory shorebirds, frogs, reptiles and invertebrates. There is also an extensive coastal dune system that supports healthy threatened white gum coastal forest.

A    At Sloping MainReserve, black gum forest and woodland is in beautiful condition and covers how many hectares?

6. 42 hectares

7. 41 hectares

8. 40 hectares

9. 39 hectares

B    The property also includes good areas of black peppermint (Eucalyptus amygdalina) forest on?

0. Sand

1. Grantie

2. Sandstone

3. Volcanic soil

C    Together with neighbouring Lime Bay State Reserve and Coal Mines Historic Site, Sloping Main Reserve is part of a contiguous conservation reserve on the Tasman Peninsula totally?

0. 2,210 hectares

1. 2,220 hectares

2. 2,230 hectares

3. 2,240 hectares

D    Sloping Main Reserve makes a substantial contribution to the protection of this critically endangered ecosystem, as well as protecting habitat that could support another? 

3. 16 threatened flora and fauna species

4. 17 threatened flora and fauna species

5. 18 threatened flora and fauna species

6. 19 threatened flora and fauna species

E    The property is virtually free of weeds, with the exception of a small area of radiata pine. How much of the property had been previously cleared for agriculture?

2. 108 hectares

3. 104 hectares

4. 100 hectares

5. 95 hectares

F    Large intact buffers of vegetation gently slope up from where to bushland, a very rare attribute of saltmarsh in Tasmania?  

0. Tasman's Marsh

1. Bass’s Marsh

2. Thompson’s Marsh

3. Burden’s Marsh

The cache can be found at S 42° 34.ABC′ E 147° 28.DEF′ 

(Source: Sloping Main)