Cultural Landscape Management - Australian Alps National Parks

•Determinetherelationships between thelandscapeand thefeatures,and between thefeaturesthemselves.This includes consideringthesequenceofevents and evidence,therelationship in physicalterms and infunction.Forexample,whichfeatures arethemostimportantinformingordefiningthelandscape?Is thepresenceofonefeaturedependentontheformerexistenceofanother(egbordercrossing pointbuiltatW illis to collectcatletoll tax,afteruseoftheroutetoavoid thetaxwas well­established)?­3.1.3Assess significance• Assess thesignificanceof thelandscape,its features,and therelationships between them,on thebasisofhow well thethem es and historicperiods arerepresented.Usecriteriasuch as rarity,how well ­repres ented elsewhere,condition,and how integrated (iehow completewithrespectto structures,components and relationships)thesiteis.Assistancein makin gcomparativeassessments mayberequired.Step 23.2 Develop the conservation policy and strategy3.2.1 Gather information.• Lookatthecondition ofthelandscapeand features,selectappropriatetreatments.3.2.2Develop conservation policy. 3.2.3Develop strategy for conservation works and actions. Step 33.3 Im plem ent the strategy• Implementthestrategy,eitheras astand-aloneconservationproject,orbyintegratingitwiththeparkmanagementplan.­Followingthis step-by-stepprocess allows youtomakeinformed decisions aboutmanagingthelandscapefortheconservation ofits cultural values.Part4oftheseGuidelines address stepone;Part5deals withsteps two and three.19