Central West Local Land Services, 48 pages
Restoring native vegetation and habitat features can be a slow process and it is often hard to tell if management efforts are having the desired effect. This guide outlines some of the key indicators that you should look for to determine if the health of your conservation area is improving or declining.
Reading the landscape is about looking for signs or clues that help to piece together what is happening in the landscape. This guide focuses on signs of both positive and negative impacts within conservation areas.
It is important for landholders to be able to ‘read the landscape’ and recognise and understand the signs of vegetation and habitat decline as well as what is impacting their sites. This insight is needed so that conservation and restoration efforts can be focused and appropriate action can be taken to prevent further decline and loss of both plant and animal species.
It is also important that landholders can recognise positive signs of improvement so they know when they have made good management decisions and can continue to do so.
