DRAFT Tuart Conservation and Management Strategy

Natural Resource Management: The ecologically sustainable management of natural
resources - soil, water, plants and animals - so as to maintain environmental health and
conserve biodiversity, and provide productive benefits.
Precautionary principle: Concerned with decision-making where action should be taken to
prevent damage even where there is no absolute certainty that damage will occur. It applies
where there is a threat of serious or irreversible damage.
Recovery: The process of managing threatened species by simple protection and monitoring,
through to controlling predators, grazers or competitors, through to more active measures
including translocations or manipulation of habitat.
Rehabilitation: The process necessary to return disturbed land to a predetermined surface,
vegetation cover, land use or productivity.
RFA: Means Regional Forest Agreement
Silviculture: The theory and practice of managing forest and woodland establishment,
composition and growth to achieve a designated management objective.
Stand: A group of trees or patch of forest that can be distinguished from other groups on the
basis of size, age, species composition, condition or other attribute
Structure: When applied to woodlands is the vertical and spatial distribution of the
vegetation.
Threatening process: Those processes that may result in the long-term reduction of
biodiversity. Examples include (i) predisposing factors such as climate variability, (ii)
contributory factors such as altered fire regimes and changed hydrology, and (iii) inciting
factors such as insect attack and invasion by pathogens.
Vegetation complex: A combination of distinct site vegetation types, usually associated with
a particular geomorphic, climatic, floristic and vegetation structural association.
WALIS: Means Western Australian Land Information System.
Weed: A plant, often a self-sown exotic, growing where it is not wanted.
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