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This information is intended to be used to guide management decisions and actions for these highly sensitive biodiversity values.  The desktop review of mapping and the associated reports found a low confidence in assigning TECs within many reserves. Most vegetation mapping was completed at a broad scale (ie.1:50,000) between 2006 and 2012, with the oldest being Weetalibah NR in 1998. This has resulted in low quality, imprecise and overly broad vegetation boundary delineation where landscape patterns have been missed and/or incorrectly identified and do not reflect on-ground vegetation. It is particularly evident when reviewing GIS mapping at a finer scale (eg. 1:5,000). \r\nThe low quality linework and subsequent low confidence in assigning TECs to existing vegetation units creates challenges in applying on-ground management decisions and can potentially lead to adverse outcomes such as the mismanagement of highly sensitive biodiversity. \r\nAs a result of these issues, this Field Identification Guide for Threatened Ecological Communities in the Castlereagh Region has been prepared to accompany the spatial dataset, inform better decision making, and provide accessibility for the rapid on-ground validation of the presence of absence of TECs in the Castlereagh Region Reserves. \r\nThe guide can be referred to by field staff for in-field diagnostic characteristics of TECs to confirm whether a TEC that has been assigned to a mapped vegetation community is present. \r\nIf there is any uncertainty between observations in the field and this guide, it is recommended that 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