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DRAFT South West Regional NRM Strategy – Ancillary Document DoE 2003 Preliminary Agency Statement of Natural Resource Management Priorities in Western Australia. Unpublished Report prepared by Department of Agriculture, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Department of Environment and Department of Fisheries, WA. 80 pp. Key preliminary document for discussion that states the State Government’s position on NRM assets of WA (See also the primary document State NRM Office 2007). DoW 2009 A draft water quality improvement plan for the Vasse Wonnerup Wetlands and Geographe Bay. Department of Water, Perth, 805 pp. 17 recommendations addressing the management of nutrients (diffuse agricultural, point agricultural, diffuse urban, urban point) and environmental flows, as well as identifying R&D needs for these two priority assets. Describes: the ecological values; issues (water quality linked to fish kills, algal blooms (in wetlands and the bay), noxious odours, decrease in seagrass beds, mosquitoes and nutrients); and water quality objectives & identifies which waterways require Protection, Intervention or Recovery work. The plan’s five most important management directions are to focus on diffuse agricultural sources of nutrients as a first priority for remedial nutrient management action and investment; further improve effluent management at dairies and feedlots; prevent further increases to current nutrient loads from new urban developments (critically important); reduce nutrient export from existing urban areas in some reporting catchments where there are significant nutrient contributions from diffuse urban sources; and reduce contributions from septic systems in some reporting catchments to address local-level water quality problems. Document included several other reports as annexes: DoW – Nutrient modelling in the Vasse Geographe catchment; DAFWA - Landuse Nutrient Model Framework Development Report; Wetland Research & Management - Ecological Character Description Vasse-Wonnerup Wetlands Ramsar Site in South-west Western Australia; Ecotones & Associates - Support System for Phosphorus & Nitrogen Decisions – BMP Scenarios for the Vasse-Geographe; and DoW – Water Quality Monitoring Programme for the Vasse-Geographe Catchment. DoW 2011 Leschenault Estuary water quality improvement plan – Draft for public comment. Department of Water, Perth, WA xx, 181 pp. + DVD Detailed description of the estuary as an asset, the key threats impacting on it, and what needs to be done about it. Key management actions are given in detail – management of diffuse & point source agricultural nutrients; management of diffuse & point source urban nutrients; environmental water management; and assess condition and measure progress. Driscoll, DA, A Felton, P Gibbons, AM Felton, NT Munro and DB Lindenmayer 2011 Priorities in policy and management when existing biodiversity stressors interact with climate-change. Climatic Change Online at DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0170-1. There are 3 key drivers of the biodiversity crisis: (1) well-known existing threats, e.g. habitat loss, invasive pest species and resource exploitation; (2) direct effects of climate change, e.g. on coastal and high elevation communities and coral reefs; and (3) interaction between existing threats and climate change. The third is set to accelerate the biodiversity crisis beyond the impacts of the first and second drivers in isolation. Management and policy action that address known threats to biodiversity could substantially diminish the impacts of future climate change. An appropriate response to climate change will include a reduction of land clearing, increased habitat restoration using indigenous species, a reduction in the number of exotic species transported between continents or between major regions of endemism, and a reduction in the unsustainable use of natural resources. Achieving these measures requires substantial reform of policy, and development of new or more effective alliances between scientists, government agencies, NGOs and land managers. Furthermore, new management practices and policy are needed that consider shifts in the geographic range of species, and are responsive to new information acquired from improved research and monitoring programs. EPA 2007 Community Consultation Document for the draft Water Quality Improvement Plan for the Rivers and Estuary of the Peel-Harvey System. Environmental Protection Authority, Perth, WA, 16 pp. An important document that lists the key actions that need to be undertaken to improve the state of a key asset, the Peel- Harvey Inlet. The 12 actions include: Use a slow-release, low water soluble fertiliser, applied after the break of season, preferably in spring and at reduced rates, on sandy soils in rural areas Undertake soil amendment on sandy soils in rural areas Use low water soluble fertiliser in urban areas Connect all existing homes to infill sewerage Zero discharge from licensed agricultural premises Improve other agricultural practices to reduce phosphorus discharges Undertake strategic reafforestation of agricultural land Connect to sewerage all homes and properties for new urban developments Undertake soil remediation in all new urban developments with sandy soil Implement Local Planning Policies, Strategies and Planning Conditions that incorporate Best Management Practices where applicable 10
DRAFT South West Regional NRM Strategy – Ancillary Document Incorporate water sensitive urban design in all new developments Improve the agricultural and urban drainage system EPA 2008 Water Quality Improvement Plan for the rivers and estuary of the Peel-Harvey System – Phosphorus management. Environmental Protection Authority, Perth, Western Australia, 78 pp. This WQIP identifies the current status of phosphorus loads; identifies the environmental values (EVs) of water bodies, and the water quality objectives (WQOs) that will protect the EVs and identifies a set of management measures and control actions to achieve and maintain those EVs and WQOs. Evans, MC, JEM Watson, RA Fuller, O Venter, SC Bennett, PR Marsack and HP Possingham 2011 The Spatial Distribution of Threats to Species in Australia. BioScience 61(4):281-289 Conservation is ultimately about safeguarding biodiversity by arresting and reversing the impacts of threatening processes. Although data on the distributions of species are increasingly well resolved, the spatial distributions of threats to species are poorly understood. We mapped the distributions of eight major threats to Australia's threatened plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates using the geographic ranges of species affected by particular threats as surrogates for their spatial occurrence. Our results indicate that simply quantifying the proportion of species affected by particular threatening processes does not adequately capture the variation in the spatial extent, prevalence, or predominance of threats to species. Conservation planning is an inherently spatial process; therefore, explicitly considering the spatial dimension of threats could significantly enhance our ability to direct efforts to areas where the greatest conservation outcomes can be delivered. http://conservationbytes.com/2011/06/09/know-thy-threat/#more-5802 Finning, S, A Hams and J Steele 2008 Lower Harvey River Rehabilitation Plan. Technical report prepared for the Harvey River Restoration Trust, Harvey, WA. 24 pp. The report describes the Harvey River, which has undergone severe alteration from its natural state in terms of channel morphology and regional hydrology. The loss of riparian vegetation has had enormous ramifications on water quality and stream morphological processes (extensive sedimentation and eutrophication) leading to a loss of ecological diversity. Report discusses rehabilitation, showing it should focus on preserving the remaining vegetation and allowing the river to continue to evolve, with the addition of large woody debris to increase turbulence, re-oxygenate the flow and create fauna habitat. Small deconstruction of levee banks in places where steepness is excessive and contributing to erosion should also be carried out, and in the short-term banks should be stabilised with matting until native vegetation is well established. Current drainage management practices of manually clearing sediment from the River and increasing the heights of the levee banks should cease so as to enable the reconnection of the floodplain and bank stabilisation to continue. Froend, R and R Loomes 2006 Determination of ecological water requirements for wetland and terrestrial vegetation – southern Blackwood and eastern Scott coastal plain. Report to Department of Water, Centre for Ecosystem Management, Joondalup, WA. 147 pp. This study is useful for managers and builds on a previous URS study and establishes site-specific water regime criteria for selected wetlands and representative phreatophytic vegetation within the eastern Scott and southern Blackwood area. The study covers 1) Identification of phreatophytic vegetation criteria sites; 2) Establishment of wetland and terrestrial vegetation transects and baseline monitoring; 3) Proposal of ecological management objectives; 4) Determination of ecological water requirements; 5) Description of possible impacts due to water level decline; and 6) Proposal of monitoring regimes. GAO 2011 Climate engineering – Technical status, future directions, and potential responses. Report to Congressional Requester, Center for Science, Technology, and Engineering, United States Government Accountability Office GAO. 135 pp. Reports of rising global temperatures have raised questions about responses to climate change, including efforts to (1) reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, (2) adapt to climate change, and (3) design and develop climate engineering technologies for deliberate, large-scale intervention in Earth's climate. Reporting earlier that the nation lacks a coordinated climate-change strategy that includes climate engineering, this report assesses climate engineering technologies, focusing on their technical status, future directions for research on them, and potential responses. To perform this technology assessment, GAO reviewed the peer-reviewed scientific literature and government reports, consulted experts with a wide variety of backgrounds and viewpoints, and surveyed 1,006 adults across the United States. The conclusion was that climate engineering technologies do not now offer a viable response to global climate change. Experts advocating research to develop and evaluate the technologies believe that research on these technologies is urgently needed or would provide an insurance policy against worst-case climate scenarios - but caution that the misuse of research could bring new risks. The technologies being proposed have been categorized as carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM). GAO found these technologies to be currently immature, many with potentially negative consequences. Geocatch 2008 Geographe catchment management strategy – 2008. Geographe Catchment Council, Busselton, WA. 46 pp. Key strategy produced by one of six sub-regional catchment management groups, listing key threats and priority actions to address these. Only key threats (issues) are discussed under the headings water, land, biodiversity, marine & coast, people and climate. The major assets of the region are also described in the text but not prioritised. GHD 2007 Status of State Salinity Framework – Report. Report to SWCC, GHD Consultants, Perth WA. 40 pp. 11
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