A Checklist of Suggested Actions

SECTION	NO	ACTION
Chapter 1	1.1	Identify the values, uses and management issues that you associate with native vegetation. Search this guide for information relating to management issues.
	1.2	List the threats to, and pressures on, the native vegetation where you live or work.
	1.3	Read descriptions or summaries of the legislation relevant to the native vegetation that you are managing. How do the regulations differ from current or intended management? Explore the information relating to these differences in the guide.
	1.4	Decide if the threatening processes listed in the legislation apply to your native vegetation and what management practices will minimise the threats.
Chapter 2	2.1	Identify management objectives for native vegetation on your property using this guide. Prepare a property plan to help integrate native vegetation into your farm business.
	2.2	Assemble all available information relating to the soils and vegetation types on your farm to help prepare a property plan. This could include an existing property plan, aerial photos, regional plans, soil surveys, catchment plans or salinity maps. What are the areas and proportions of the different vegetation types on the property and do they occur on different soil types?
	2.3	Identify local or regional organisations that can help with plant and animal identiﬁcation, such as naturalists, bird watchers, landcare or other community groups. Join these groups or attend ﬁeld days and activities.
	2.4	Use this guide to identify suitable plant identiﬁcation resources available in your area. Herbaria, web-based ﬂora and fauna databases, and Bush Tracks 121 will also be able to suggest resources.
	2.5	Identify areas where production and conservation do or could co-exist on your property. Read the resources listed in Section 2.2b: Sustainable production.
	2.6	Visit and use the Ecosystem Services website to identify the ecosystem services provided by the native vegetation on your property.
	2.7	Identify the simple ﬁeld indicators of ecosystem health from Landscape Functional Analysis (http://www.cse.csiro.au/research/Program3/efa/index.htm). Consider the condition of the soil and vegetation on the property using these ﬁeld indicators.
	2.8	Use Trees for Shelter 171 to review current design guidelines in the establishment and management of native vegetation in corridor conﬁgurations for improvements in production, e.g. shade and shelter beneﬁts to livestock, crops and pastures.
	2.9	Use Design Principles for Farm Forestry 174 to assess the costs and beneﬁts of farm forestry on your property.
	2.10	Read the native vegetation management research ﬁndings in ‘Managing the Bush’ 125 and consider how they apply to your property.
	2.11	Review the general principles and techniques for managing bushland listed in this section.
	2.12	Consider the values of paddock trees in your area and the threats facing them. Identify management interventions suitable for your property.
	2.13	Identify your responsibilities for developing management strategies and techniques for any threatened plants or communities on your property. Review relevant legislation and use this guide to locate additional sources of information.
	2.14	Look at state threatened species online databases such as the Threatened Flora of Tasmania database http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au (Natural environment/Threatened species)
	2.15	Use the rapid appraisal tools to assess the ecological health of riparian vegetation on your property 270, 171. Where relevant, use this assessment in your property plan and associated management objectives
	2.16	Note the priority weed species in your area using Noxious Weeds of Australia 286. Use links from the website of the CRC for Australian Weed Management to ﬁnd priority weeds for your State and region.
	2.17	Develop a weed management plan to tackle high priority weeds in your area, taking into account weed species, weed ecology, catchment and regional weed strategies, control methods and available resources.
	2.18	Assess the species and condition of biological crusts and manage them either to maintain or increase their extent.
	2.19	Before conducting fuel reduction burns, consider the effect on the native vegetation and wildlife. Modify timing, intensity or scale where necessary and possible.
	2.20	Use the resources listed in this section, ‘Managing for wildlife’, to identify management options for your property to increase wildlife habitat quantity and quality.
	2.21	If revegetation is an appropriate management option for your property, read the Florabank guidelines for advice on seed collection, provenance selection, storage and use.
Chapter 3	3.1	Use the adaptive management cycle of ‘Plan-Do-Monitor-Review’ to progressively improve your management of native vegetation.
	3.2	Develop a monitoring plan as part of your property plan to effectively record and evaluate changes over time.
Chapter 4	4.1	Consider how the management changes implemented at Lyndﬁeld Park have improved degrading land and diversiﬁed production
	4.2	Investigate the ways in which timber harvesting could be used for income diversiﬁcation on your property and how it could be compatible with maintaining habitat for wildlife.