Within the reserve there are nine native vegetation communities.

Bryophytes are present in most of the major vegetation communities including several soil and moss-inhabiting species.

These factors are also important, along with altitude, in the establishment of new vegetation communities once piste construction has been completed.

Management includes ongoing surveys, along with a program to map the vegetation communities.

The vegetation community provides habitat, now rare in the central wheatbelt, for woodland birds and other animals.

They are groupings of vegetation communities based on floristic, structural, and ecological features.

This incorporates biodiversity conservation including endangered species, vegetation communities and regional ecosystems.

At elevations below 6,500 feet the dominant vegetation community is the mixed conifer forest.

Four different vegetation communities dominate in the marsh.

Such changes to snow regimes are expected to alter the composition and distribution of alpine vegetation communities.