Dryandra Woodland - Department of Environment and Conservation ...

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.
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