As part of the NSW government’s Koala strategy (Action 2.3 – Supporting councils to deliver koala habitat maps), Port Stephens Council aim to produce koala habitat maps. A critical prerequisite for the habitat maps is vegetation mapping with on ground accuracy and reliability. As such, an accurate woody extant layer is an essential baseline for producing an accurate vegetation map. This extant dataset was produced to underpin Port Stephens Council’s vegetation mapping and subsequent koala habitat maps.