Lysterfield Valley

A predominantly cleared area with a few scattered trees. The Valle is narrow and steep at its upper Eastern limits and broadens out into a flat, wide, partially enclosed plain at the North-Western end. There are outcrops of the underlying granodiorite along some of the ridge lines and the soil is generally sandy loam top-soil with a clay sub-soil. 
The land is mainly used for broad scale farming activities, such as grazing, but, recently, some hobby farm development has commenced.
Lysterfield Valley is located south-west of the Dandenong Ranges,  within the Shire of Sherbrooke (Yarra Ranges) and the City of Knox. The boundaries follow Nepoleon Road, Ferny Creek, Glenfern and Kelletts Road and are contiguous with a section of the boundary of the Recorded Lysterfield Forest area. 

The Lysterfield Valley is of significance due to its attractive landscape character and its importance as a buffer between Metropolitan Melbourne and the Dandenong Ranges.

Both parts of the physical environment, both natural and man-made which contribute to the heritage of Australia, and which should be recorded and those preservation is encouraged. 

Lysterfield Valley is an attractive pastoral landscape which forms a part of a "green wedge" between the suburban areas of Rowville and Dandenong North and the urbanised Ferntree Gully-Belgrave ridge of the Dandenongs. For many visitors, the Lysterfield Valley forms the major "gateway" to the Dandenongs from the metropolitan area. The excellent views of this landscape from Glenfern Road and Mount Morton highlights its importance as a buffer between urban and rural areas and as a visual transition between the metropolitan suburbia and the elevated and forested slopes of the Dandenong. 
Extensive clearing of native vegetation in the past has exposed the bold hills and steep slopes of the Valley landform particularly in the east. 
The major attraction of this landscape is its simplicity in colour, shape and texture in contrast to the forested areas in the South and South-East, the suburban development to the West and the forest residential character of Belgrave.