Locals have known for a long time that you don’t drive on the granitic sandy soils of Mt Kooyora or Mt Korong, unless you fancy getting bogged. Residents around the Kooyoora State Park and Mt Korong noticed that boggy wetland areas appeared and persisted for some time, after the above average rainfalls experienced in Victoria during 2010 – 2011 and 2016- 2017 and again in the extreme flooding events of 2022 - 2023.

Assessments of the area were undertaken by ecologist Dr. Paul Foreman, who recently described the naturally occurring and rare groundwater dependent, intermittent spring-soaks.  These ecosystem supports unique and endemic plant species and are scattered across the lower foot slopes of the higher granitic and metamorphic ranges of Kooyoora State park, Mt Korong, Mt Egbert and on surrounding public and freehold land. The Intermittent Soak Community have been listed as a  threatened community  on the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (FFG)