THE native vegetation of both Mount Eccles (Budj Bim) and Mount Napier (Tapoc) - and an appropriate fire regime with it - is the subject of an upcoming talk in Hamilton by a University of Melbourne ecologist, presented by the Society for Growing Australian Plants.

The area is dominated by Manna Gum with a sub-canopy of Acacias and a ground layer of Bracken with the vegetation classified as Stony Rises Woodland that forms part of the Western Plains Woodland Ecological Fire Group.