2021-06-17 OM Agenda - Item 2 - Attachment 1 - Draft Noosa Bushland Reserve Strategic Management Plan 2021-2026

List of Figures:

Figure 1 - Relationship between Environment Strategy and this document ..................................... 8
Figure 2 - Noosa Council Environment Planning Structure.............................................................. 9
Figure 3 - Legislative Drivers ........................................................................................................ 10
Figure 4 - Planning Drivers ........................................................................................................... 11
Figure 5 - Regional Ecosystems represented in Noosa bushland reserves ................................... 12
Figure 6 - EPBC Ecological Communities and Essential Habitat Statistics .................................... 13
Figure 7 - Reserve representation by Broad Vegetation Groups ................................................... 14
Figure 8 - Reserve representation within Catchments ................................................................... 16
Figure 9 - Cats Claw Creeper Vine is a high impact 'transformer weed' present on several Council
Reserves ...................................................................................................................................... 20
Figure 10 - Singapore Daisy is existent in a large percentage of Noosa's bushland reserves and
has its local origin as a garden escapee ....................................................................................... 20
Figure 11 - Priority Invasive Pest Species (transformer weeds) that impact upon Biodiversity
Values........................................................................................................................................... 21
Figure 12 - Dumping of garden waste within reserves remains a threat to bushland values .......... 23
Figure 13 - Tenure of Council-managed Bushland Reserves ........................................................ 25
Figure 14 - Bushland Care group activities contribute significantly to the management of many
bushland reserves......................................................................................................................... 26
Figure 15 - Community Tree Planting Day at Kin Kin Entrance Bushland Reserve 2017, a
component of a larger external grant acquired by Noosa Landcare for reserves in the Kin Kin area
..................................................................................................................................................... 26
Figure 16 - The Noosa bushland reserves management framework ............................................. 28
Figure 17 - Prioritisation Weighting ............................................................................................... 30
Figure 18 - Map showing prioritisation results .............................................................................. 31
Figure 19 - Decision Framework for Management Program Category and Planning Mechanism
allocation ...................................................................................................................................... 32
Figure 20 - Reserve Management Program Category and Planning Mechanism summary ........... 33
Figure 21 - BOA Condition Classes............................................................................................... 34
Figure 22 - Change in resilience condition at Heritage Park from 2010 to 2018 ............................ 36
Figure 23 - Annual Allocations - Levels of Service Table............................................................... 37
Figure 24 - Bushland Care Groups can be supported in a variety of ways and can enable valuable
local community engagement ....................................................................................................... 40
Figure 25 - Council staff and contractors need to become proficient at field-based electronic
recording of pest species and use of Council’s Pest Management Database ................................ 41
Figure 26 - Noosa Bushland Reserves Planning Framework ........................................................ 46
Figure 27 - Noosa Bushland Reserves Strategic Plan objectives, KPI's and measure .................. 47




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