Foster Flora Reserves

Foster, once a bustling gold mining town known as Stockyard Creek, is one of a few Victorian country towns that have substantial areas of public land within their boundaries. Numerous walking tracks link together to lead you through Flora Reserves. The area features a rich diversity of plants and animals, and pays homage to our gold mining history.

Flora & Fauna - These reserves are home to echidnas, koalas, wombats and Ringtail Possums. Wallabies, Pygmy Possums and the antechinus (native mouse) also live here. Birdlife to watch for are Grey Fantails, Crimson Rosellas, pardalotes, wrens, Grey Thrushes and Golden Whistlers.

The flora reserves support Lowland Forest and Swamp Scrub. As extensive clearing has occurred, the vegetation regrowth is quite young. Lowland Forest is dominated by Messmate, Narrow Leaf Peppermint and Mountain Grey Gums, with an understorey of shrubs including Narrow-leaf Wattle, Prickly Mosses, Prickly Tea-tree and Common Heath and a ground cover of Wire Grass and Bracken. Swamp Scrub consists of dense thickets of Swamp Paperbark, with an understorey of Mat Rush, Bidgee-Widgee, mosses, lichen and geranium species.