DRAFT Tuart Conservation and Management Strategy

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commitments to, funding and implementing tuart conservation and management programs. This draft strategy proposes a number of implementation approaches and invites discussion on an appropriate way forward. An Action Plan - that has yet to be developed - will accompany the approved Tuart Conservation and Management Strategy. The implementation work described in the Action Plan will depend on the comments received following the public submission phase of the draft ‘tuart strategy’, and the comments and ideas received during the earlier October-September 2002 stakeholder and community workshop series. The Action Plan will seek to identify responsible-support agencies, non-government organisations, existing and proposed funding commitments, and timelines and targets for the implementation of designated works. Ludlow Tuart Forest National Park. Photo: Rick Sneeuwjagt Extract from The Forests of Western Australia and their Development (1899) by J. Ednie Brown. “Tuart. This is a handsome Eucalypt, and has a wonderful bright and cheerful appearance in the forest. The bark is of greyish-white colour, and is smoothly crinkled and persistent throughout… The tree is confined in its natural habitat to the limestone belts lying along the coast between Perth and Busselton…I think the tree is purely gregarious, and does not intermingle with any of our other timber trees, except perhaps in places sparsely with a stunted form of jarrah. With the banksias and melaleucas it is of course intimately associated, but these only form the undergrowth of the forest which it creates…The soil formation of the limestone belt referred to is a sandy loam of considerable fertility, with a subsoil of a rather retentive nature. Upon this the Tuart seem to feed and thrive well. Of course, from these natural proclivities, we must classify this tree as a purely coastal one”. 7
SECTION 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n 1.1 Purpose of this draft strategy This draft Tuart conservation and management strategy has been developed by the Minister for the Environment’s Tuart Response Group to encourage your feedback on the future conservation and management of tuart woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia. In this strategy the Response Group makes suggestions about the vision, outcomes, aims, targets and strategies for conserving and managing tuart woodlands and asks for your comments on these proposals. This draft ‘tuart strategy’ will lead to the development of the Government’s final Tuart Conservation and Management Strategy and Action Plan. The final ‘tuart strategy’ will differ from this draft ‘tuart strategy’ because it will reflect the responses received from public consultation and will designate actions, responsible and support organisations, budget implications and timeframes for meeting the agreed targets and outcomes. 1.2 Contributory processes The development of this strategy has been informed by the following contributory processes: • the workshop ‘Tuart – the tree and the community in which it lives, and the published workshop proceedings Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) and Tuart Communities (Wildflower Society 2002); • development and wide distribution of the brochure Saving Our Tuart’s that aimed to increase community awareness about the need to conserve and protect remaining tuart woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain; • preparation and wide distribution of the status report for Tuart Conservation and Protection that aimed to promote a more informed community debate on: (i) the values of tuart woodlands, (ii) reserve and off-reserve conservation and protection issues, and (iii) future directions the Government might take in conserving and managing remnant tuart woodlands; • publication of Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) LANDSCOPE articles Cherish the Tuart and The Tenuous Tuart in the autumn and winter 2003 magazine editions; • submissions received at the seven community and stakeholder workshops between Lancelin and Busselton to seek views and comments on tuart conservation and management issues and approaches; • establishing a sound scientific basis for future tuart conservation and management. This included: (i) developing the Tuart Vegetation System Health Model for targeting research and testing research findings, (ii) developing remote sensing techniques using LandSat TM for monitoring tuart decline at Yalgorup, (iii) convening the Tuart Science Workshop to canvas views on proposed research directions and priorities, and (iv) collaboration on the award of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant for research into tuart health; 8
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