Landscape Rehabilitation: Approaches and Techniques

4th - 6th February 2003
Yass, New South Wales

Content

The workshop will be a mixture of lectures, workshops, demonstrations and field trips and will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding rehabilitation
  • Landscape Function Analysis
  • Rehabilitating the soil
  • Provenance and genetics
  • Translocation
  • Rehabilitation approaches and techniques
  • Constructing a rehabilitation plan

Speakers

  • Roger Good, Senior Project Manager, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • Dr Tricia Hogbin, Senior Threatened Species Officer, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
  • Stuart Johnston, Property and Environment Manager, TransGrid Southern Region
  • Dr Ian Lunt, Senior Lecturer, The Johnstone Centre for Social & Biophysical Environmental Research, Charles Sturt University
  • Jeanette Mill, National Coordinator, Australian Network for Plant Conservation
  • Ian Perkins, Principal Consultant, IPCS
  • Rainer Rehwinkel, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • David Tongway, Landscape Ecologist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Audience

This workshop is suitable for people who are involved in or wish to be involved in rehabilitation projects, including:

  • Industry environmental officers
  • Soil Conservation Officers
  • Government conservation organisations
  • Local government staff
  • Botanic gardens staff
  • Non-government conservation organisation staff
  • Coordinators and members of community groups (e.g. Landcare, Bushcare, Coastcare)
  • NHT program community facilitators and extension officers
  • Catchment coordinators and Natural Resource Mangers
  • Private land owners/managers

Course Fees

Industry $600
Government Agencies $300
Community $180
Workshop Dinner (optional, venue TBA) $30

  • Day rates available on request
  • Course fees include morning and afternoon teas, lunches, course notes and travel to field sites.
  • All prices include 10% GST (ABN 70 861 480 818)

Hosted and supported by

TransGrid
TransGrid
(Southern Region)

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
NSW National Parks
and Wildlife Service


Environmental TrustThis project has been assisted
by the New South Wales Government
through its Environmental Trust.



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