Whitfield wild dog management zone

Work plan 2023–2024

A detailed map of the Whitfield region showing the Whitfield wild dog management zone along with Trapping and Priority 1 and Priority 2 ground baiting transects. Further information below image.

Whitfield wild dog management zone work plan document and map (PDF - 3.7 MB)

Localities within the Whitfield wild dog management zone include:

  • Archerton
  • Barwite
  • Bobinawarrah
  • Bridge Creek
  • Carboor
  • Cheshunt
  • Cheshunt South
  • Dandongadale
  • Docker
  • East Wangaratta
  • Edi
  • Edi Upper
  • Everton
  • Glenrowan
  • Greta
  • Greta South
  • Greta West
  • Hansonville
  • King Valley
  • Laceby
  • Lima South
  • Markwood
  • Meadow Creek
  • Merrijig (Mount Buller)
  • Milawa
  • Molyullah
  • Moorngag
  • Mount Buller
  • Moyhu
  • Myrrhee
  • North Wangaratta
  • Oxley
  • Oxley Flats
  • Rose River
  • Samaria
  • Swanpool
  • Tarrawingee
  • Tatong
  • Tolmie
  • Upper Ryans Creek
  • Wabonga
  • Wangaratta
  • Wangaratta South
  • Whitfield
  • Whitlands.

Targeted ground baiting transects are located on public land:

  • south of Tatong
  • north, east and south of Toombullup
  • south-east of Molyullah
  • west of Whitfield.

Trapping and priority 2 ground baiting transects are a network of tracks. These are located on public land:

  • west of Carboor
  • north of King Valley
  • east and south of Whitfield
  • south of Molyullah
  • east and south of Tatong
  • surrounding Toombullup.

The map shows within the Whitfield wild dog management zone there is 112,441 hectares of public land, 73,336 hectares of land under the three-kilometre livestock protection buffer and 122,760 of private land. There is one Wild Dog Controller, with a capacity for 3,000 trap nights and 66 kilometres of Targeted ground baiting transects.

There is one Community Wild Dog Control group located within the Whitfield wild dog management zone. The Cheshunt and Ryans Creek Community Wild Dog Control group includes private land near King Valley and Whitfield.

The map should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Whitfield wild dog management zone plan.

If you would like to receive this publication in an accessible format, please phone 136 186 or email customer.service@dewlp.vic.gov.au, or via the National Relay Service on 133 677.

Page last updated: 25 Sep 2023