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• The major roads in Dryandra will require maintenance over the next ten years. The continuing redevelopment and maintenance of these roads will become an increasing financial burden for CALM. OBJECTIVE 1. Limit extraction of raw materials from Dryandra to areas where such activity will have minimal impact on the Woodland's flora, fauna and visual landscape. STRATEGIES 1. In accordance with NPNCA policy, permit access to basic raw materials from nature reserve or national park areas where the road or facility is within the boundaries or road reserve enclave of the reserve or national park. Where the material is for use on areas or easements not managed by CALM, ensure that all biological survey and dieback assessment and related costs are borne by the authority accessing the material. 2. Ensure requests for gravel, sand and stone from State forest areas of Dryandra are in accordance with CALM Policy Statement No 2. Local Government Authority Access to Basic Raw Materials from State Forest and Timber Reserves. 3. Use, wherever practicable, materials for road construction and maintenance that visually blend with the surrounding soils. 4. Ensure an up-to-date hygiene map is available before raw materials are extracted. Materials infected with plant fungal disease will not be used on disease-free-sites. Ensure all quarries have strictly controlled access. 5. Ensure that conservation values, particularly threatened plants or Aboriginal sites, are not disturbed by extraction of materials. 6. Rehabilitate all pits according to CALM guidelines as soon as extraction of materials is complete. 23. REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED AREAS BACKGROUND Disturbance is defined as any activity or process producing, or likely to produce, long-term degradation of habitats and ecosystems. Rehabilitation includes the processes necessary to return disturbed land to a predetermined landform and vegetation condition, land use or productivity. 85
Rehabilitation may be required after any site disturbance such as gravel pit working, road works, disease or pest attack. Rehabilitation may also be required after recreation activities, or the effects of fire or fire suppression activities such as installation of firelines. Within the next ten years the main areas requiring rehabilitation are: - failed mallet plantations (which will eventually be converted to communities of original species); - gravel pits and some tracks that are no longer required; - parts of the Settlement field not required for recreation purposes; and - areas of non-local plants. ISSUES • The methodology for converting mallet plantations to a woodland of original species has not been developed and the impact of the process on the threatened fauna has not been assessed (see Section 15. Timber Production). • The recreational requirements of the Settlement field have yet to be determined. Once this has occurred the remainder of the field, except the seed orchard, will be rehabilitated. OBJECTIVE • Rehabilitate areas degraded by past and present land uses with local plant species. STRATEGIES 1. Manage Dryandra, as far as practicable, to avoid disturbance. Rehabilitation should be the last option in a series of management decisions designed to protect Dryandra's values. 2. Minimise the area and degree of disturbances associated with planned activities (for example, recreation site development - see Table 4), and specify rehabilitation requirements. 3. Survey Dryandra for existing disturbances and specify areas that require rehabilitation. As part of this process determine, in consultation with the Lions Club, what recreation activities are appropriate for the Settlement field and the associated area required. Rehabilitate the remainder of the field, except the seed orchard. 4. Prepare and implement rehabilitation prescriptions for all disturbed areas as resources permit. Natural regeneration is the preferred method rehabilitation and, where necessary, steps should be taken to encourage it. Where natural regeneration is not possible, species of local provenance should be planted, with restoration as far as practicable of the original species diversity and composition. 5. Ensure that, whenever possible, the cost of rehabilitation is borne by the agency responsible for the disturbance. 86
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DRYANDRA WOODLAND MANAGEMENT PLAN 1
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The planning team
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Map 1 Locality iv
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Mallet (a source of tannins) was a
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A range of access will continue to
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE _________
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PRINCIPAL MANAGEMENT DIRECTIONS 1.
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Map 2. Remnant Vegetation outside D
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Changes in Use and Management Since
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natural bush north of Narrogin sati
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4. GEOLOGY, LANDFORMS AND SOILS BAC
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3. The supply of domestic quality w
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• the exotic plant species along
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south coast national parks of Fitzg
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- Ensure that a record of the locat
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Twenty-four species of native mamma
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• The movement of biota between i
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CULTURAL RESOURCES 9. ABORIGINAL HE
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STRATEGIES - Identify Noongar peopl
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After 1959, the amount of mallet ba
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- Dryandra will be managed to attra
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10. Retain all vehicle access to pr
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Page 52 and 53: STRATEGY 1. Ensure all buildings, e
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Page 74 and 75: LONG TERM VISION No bushland in agr
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Page 92 and 93: 20. WEEDS BACKGROUND A weed is defi
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Page 106 and 107: Inventory, research and monitoring
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Page 112 and 113: REFERENCES Australia ICOMOS (1988)
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Page 118 and 119: Conservation Codes R. Declared Rare
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