The Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland Endangered Ecological Community Restoration and Rehabilitation Management Plan (DECC 2007) remains the primary reference documenting the management required to restore and protect the rare bushland into the future.
The first management plan was commissioned by the Central Coast branch of the Australian Conservation Foundation and created by Dr Tien McDonald in 1992 for the Burrawang Reserve, which fronts Hillview and Railway Sts, Woy Woy.
It took another 10 years before the woodland, which had been described as early as 1952, was gazetted as an endangered ecological community on December 6, 2002.
"Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland is the Sydney Basin Bioregion is likely to become extinct in nature in New South Wales unless the circumstances and factors threatening its survival or evolutionary development cease to operate."
At the time, the Burrawang Reserve was not included, as it was "currently only known from three small areas at Umina: at Umina Oval, McEvoy Oval and Umina High School and at a tiny remnant at Little Patonga Beach".
In 2004, a bush care group was formed by the P&C of the Umina campus of the Brisbane Water Secondary College - the former Umina High School. Its members wrote a bush management plan for the campus in 2005.
It was not until 2009 that Gecko Environment Management was commissioned by Gosford Council to prepare a bushland management plan for the bush areas of the Peninsula Recreation Precinct adjacent to Umina oval.
