2017-10-13 Special Meeting

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                  13 OCTOBER 2017


 Ecological Restoration      Circumstances Where                       Examples
 Approach                    Appropriate

 Reconstruction              Where resilience is depleted, and         Where native vegetation has been
                             abiotic or biotic elements need           removed and is not naturally
                             wholesale importation or major            recruiting, but site topography
                             amendment before recovery can             remains unchanged.
                             commence.

 Fabrication                 Where conditions are permanently          Where topography has changed so
 (Type conversion)           changed and better-adapted local          drastically, that the original
                             systems can be regenerated or             ecosystem can no longer be re-
                             constructed to restore integrity to the   established on the site.
                             landscape
Four Common restoration approaches (modified from McDonald, 2006)

In the context of the rehabilitation of the pine PLA areas, the following types of work would be
potentially required.

 Approach                   Management                                 Methods

 Natural regeneration       Largely fire and people                    Monitoring and patrols. Collaboration
                            management (general operational            with National Parks and Rural Fire
                            costs, not rehab costs)                    Service

 Assisted regeneration      Installation of absent structurally        Installation of Eucalyptus, Syncarpia,
                            critical tree species - Eucalyptus,        Lophostemon and Corymbia at
                            Syncarpia, Lophostemon and                 densities of 5mx5m (400stems/ha)
                            Corymbia that are canopy                   Control of Transformer Weeds - Spot
                            dominants of wet sclerophyll forest        spraying. Cut and swab with
                            in Queensland.                             herbicide.
                            Control of transformer weeds.              Pine wildings can be cut at base or
                            Camphor Laurel has been recorded           treated with herbicide and left in situ”
                            within pine areas in small                 – this is quicker, cheaper and safer
                            concentrations. Cat’s claw creeper         than chainsaw felling.
                            or Madeira vine have not been              Existing dense areas of lantana can
                            detected in pine plantation areas but      be cleared with a posi-track followed
                            creek lines outside of the pine areas      up by spot spraying. Dense lantana
                            have not been inspected. Currently         patches occur only in older fallow
                            pine wildlings occur in low                areas.
                            concentrations across pine fallow
                            areas and it is anticipated that
                            wildlings will require control in the
                            future. Groundsel has been
                            recorded in small concentrations.
                            Lantana is extensive in some areas
                            of the pine plantation, particularly in
                            Ringtail north and Yurol south.

 Reconstruction             Includes bare areas slow to                Mulching and tree planting. Posi-
                            regenerate. Strategic targeting of         track with mulching head. Follow up
                            areas of high density lantana which        spot spraying.
                            is restricting growth of emergent          Planting if area is not naturally
                            vegetation.                                regenerating.

 Fabrication                No fabrication required at this stage      N/A




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