2021-06-08 P&E Agenda - Item 6 - Attachment 1 - 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 ......................................................................................................... 111
Figure 5 - Regional Ecosystem represented in Noosa bushland reserves ..................................... 12
Figure 6 - EPBC Ecological Communities and Essential Habitat Statistics .................................... 13
Figure 7 - Reserve representation by Broad Vegetation Groups ................................................... 13
Figure 8 - Reserve representation within Catchments ................................................................... 15
Figure 9 - Cats Claw Creeper Vine is a high impact 'transformer weed' existent on several Council
Reserves ...................................................................................................................................... 19
Figure 10 - Singapore Daisy is existent in a large percentage of Noosa's bushland reserves and
has its local origin as a garden escapee. ...................................................................................... 19
Figure 11 – Priority Invasive Pest Species that impact upon Biodiversity Values .......................... 20
Figure 12 - Dumping of garden waste within reserves remains a threat to bushland values .......... 22
Figure 13 - Reserve Tenure .......................................................................................................... 24
Figure 14 - Bushland Care group activities contribute significantly to the management of many
bushland reserves......................................................................................................................... 25
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. ............................................ 27
Figure 17 - Prioritisation Weighting ............................................................................................... 30
Figure 18 - Map showing prioritisation results…………………………………………………………..31
Figure 19 - Decision Framework for Management Program Category and Planning Mechanism
allocation .................................................................................................................................. ….33
Figure 20 - Reserve Management Program Category and Planning Mechanism summary ........... 32
Figure 21 - BOA Condition Classes............................................................................................... 35
Figure 22 - Change in resilience condition at Heritage Park from 2010 to 2016 ............................ 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 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 ........................................................ 47
Figure 27 - Noosa Bushland Reserves Strategic Plan objectives, KPI's and measure. ................. 48




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