Conference Proceedings Veg Futures
Day 3

WORKSHOPS and COLLOQUIA

Download the workshop and colloquia program here (120k pdf) as a guide, or scroll through by title below.

W1: Translating regional planning into patch-scale action
+Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Resource Management in NSW: complexity, coordination and common sense
+Living Landscapes: lessons from the Central Wheatbelt of Western Australia
+Landscape prioritisation: Maximising biodiversity outcomes through targeted investment
+Regional Partnerships – The Avon Natural Diversity Alliance (ANDA)
+ Linking large-scale planning to on-ground works in the Goulburn Broken Catchment
+Landscape scale conservation and a planning tool to help you do it!
W2: Commercial vegetation management
+FloraSearch - Developing broadscale commercial revegetation industries in low rainfall regions of southern Australia
+Private Native Forestry – Silviculture, Sustainability and Incentives for Vegetation Management
+The Evolution of Dryland Tree Cropping in Western Australia
+The value of eucalypt plantations for providing fauna habitat in mosaic rural landscapes: how can they help in landscape restoration?
+Planted forests and regional conservation in landscapes of south eastern Australia
+Plantations For Greenhouse: Putting carbon back to work
W3: Riparian Vegetation I – Land & Water Australia National Riparian Lands R&D Program
+Land & Water Australia National Riparian Lands R&D Program
W4: Community and business partnerships
+GreenGrid: TransGrid in partnership with Greening Australia
+Planting the seed for more reliable power and a greener environment
W5: Seed and provenance
+Identifying and managing threats to remnant vegetation in agricultural landscapes
+Seed Futures – Seed Supply Framework for Effective Revegetation in the Murray Catchment
+The Days of Our Lives - Seed Bank Operations
+Seed Management Services
+Basic Seed Identification
W6: Grasslands
+Training for management of grassy ecosystems
+Impact of weed management strategies on the soil seed bank of a modified woodland and opportunistic pasture in northern Victoria
+The key ingredients in the successful broad-scale sowing of native grasses
+Recovering our natural ecosystems: Friends of Grasslands’ experience in Southern Tablelands of NSW and ACT
+Native grass pastures - not pristine but valuable
+The influence of management techniques on vegetation dynamics of grasslands in Northern Victoria
W7: Arts and the environment
+Arts and the environment
W8: How do we balance conservation with production and other land uses?
+HOTSPOTS FIRE PROJECT: Implementing Ecologically Appropriate Fire Regimes in NSW
+Bushland or parkland: vegetation management in landscapes under rapid conversion
+Trees, soils and grazing productivity
+A different decision-making process can produce profits, increase carbon sequestration in soils, regenerate landscapes, and give peace of mind
W9: Property vegetation planning
+Implementing the NSW Government’s native vegetation reforms – The Property Vegetation Planning (PVP) System
+Developments in property vegetation planning in Victoria
+Native vegetation “Net-gain today or Net-loss tomorrow” - examples from practice in Victoria
+A Different View: The Offset Regulation in Germany
W10: Market-based instruments
+BushTender and beyond – experiences with MBIs and biodiversity
+Landholder perspective on participation, knowledge and outcomes in BushTender auctions
+The role of communication in the successful implementation of an MBI
+Land Management Tenders - a whole farm approach to integration of production and environmental outcomes
W11: Riparian vegetation II
+How are landholders managing Crown Water Frontages in the Goulburn Broken Catchment? Condition monitoring and licence review.
+Wetland enhancement in the Murray Catchment - monitoring success?
+Restoring Victoria’s Riparian Corridors. Pre-works condition assessments in the upper Goulburn catchment
+Managing Competing Social, Economic and Environmental Pressures on the River Murray Between Lake Hume and Lake Mulwala
W12: Land, Water & Wool
+Today’s landholders managing tomorrow’s landscapes: the changing face of native vegetation stewardship in Australia’s wool industry.
W13: Retain, Repair, Re-establish: the future of revegetation
+The missing link in many revegetation projects
+Knowing the window of opportunity for successful broad acre revegetation projects in lower rainfall regions (400-600 mm rainfall)
+The Grassy Groundcover Research Project – returning complex indigenous grassland communities to agricultural land
+Understanding and improving ecosystem function in the Murray Mallee and Wimmera bioregions
+How have woodland tree densities changed since European settlement?
+When is natural regeneration cheaper? Assessing the costs of getting trees on farms.
+Secrets of successful tree establishment
W14: Vegetation as wildlife habitat
+Wildlife on Farms: The Role of Planted Native Vegetation in Restoring Habitat for Animals
+Designing the “right” biodiversity for conservation and horticultural production
+Floristic diversity of shelterbelts: enhancing wildlife conservation and pest suppression
+Invertebrates and the future of veg
+Wetland management for waterbirds: the vegetation cover balancing act
+If we plant it, will the wildlife come?
W15: Perspectives on the role and value of native vegetation
+Values Mapping: A tool to assist in conserving native vegetation
+A community partnership to reforest fire affected forests in the Australian Capital Territory
+Differences between the vocabularies of landholders engaged in regenerative farming and grazing to those who use industrialised methods of production
W16: How do we know if we are making a difference?
+Why we need a national forest monitoring system: The case for the Continental Forest Monitoring Framework
+What impact are we having? A survey of landholders who have worked with Greening Australia ACT & SE NSW over the last twenty years
+Bringing BREEDING Birds Back
+Reporting trends in vegetation assets, states and transitions at the farm level – a southern tablelands case study
+Assessment of the Revegetation of Agricultural Ecosystems near Byawatha, Victoria. Are we making a difference in soil invertebrate biodiversity?
+A farmer’s journey to holistic management
Colloquia A
+The role of social research in understanding why landholders engage in vegetation management and conservation
+Corangamite Seed Supply & Revegetation Network – Lifting the stakes on revegetation and seed supply
+Intelligent vegetation species choices and management around overhead powerlines
+Perceptions of consultation: Indigenous perspectives
+Enviromark: An integrated approach to managing roadside vegetation
+Perceptions of consultation: Indigenous perspectives
+The Cooneana Olive: an Australian Plant on the Brink of Extinction
+Best practice management of remnant vegetation - Bush regeneration/natural area restoration/assisted natural regeneration. A practitioners perspective.
+Understanding factors influencing landholder participation in native vegetation best management practices in the Murray Irrigation region
+The Manager and the Egg: Perceptions of the role of corridors in biodiversity management
+Partnerships in managing public land in the Murray catchment
+Don’t use a dentist to do brain surgery! Using correct restoration techniques in the correct place
+Simple systems for complex places: Revegetation with highly localised endemic moorts and intergrading mallets
+The Benefits of Native Vegetation in Agriculture
+Clearing or conservation? The debate over White Cypress Pine regrowth
+Learning from Farmers: Managing native vegetation
+Establishing trees on farms – don’t forget the impacts of management: A case study in the Riverina bioregion
+A holistic opportunity is arising
+Green Cadets: Grinwan Geing and Lilwan Geing
+From Science to Shovels – Planning and acting for the future of koalas in Pine Rivers
+Profiling Australia’s vegetation – its uses and values
+Community action against grassy weeds in the Greater Darwin region
Colloquia B
+Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management: Using global thinking to act locally
+Of mistletoe and mechanisms—drivers of declining biodiversity in remnant woodlands
+What is the value of environmental plantings in sequestering carbon and how can this be monitored and evaluated?
+Who should care for remnant vegetation in agricultural landscapes?
+Benefits of cooperative tree breeding for Australia’s sheep wheat belt
+Who should pay for the environment?
+Demonstration of GIS software
+Murray catchment on-farm incentives delivery – an integrated approach
+Best practice native vegetation management support in North Central Victoria
+A decision support system to combat rural tree decline
+Biodiversity Self Assessment Tool project
+An introduction to the Visual Tree Assessment Method
+CarbonTender – Paying Landholders to Create Greenhouse Sinks
+Informing future practice through evaluation
+How Green is Defence?
+Arthropods in Vineyards and Adjacent Native Vegetation
+The use of Corporate Risk Analysis to improve pilot programs
+Remotely-sensed image texture: the key to monitoring and managing dry sclerophyll forest stand-structural complexity for biodiversity conservation
+Targets, targets, targets: laying some common ground across multi-catchment natural resource management targets for vegetation management and revegetation

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