Bush Regeneration Program
By definition bush regeneration is 'the systematic removal of weeds to allow native plants to establish'. A variety of techniques can be used to achieve this goal including manual, chemical, mechanical and biological means as well as fire. Bush regeneration requires long-term commitment to a site over a number of years.
Council has engaged the services of bushland restoration contractors since 1993/4, and this program has continued to expand to over 50 sites around the shire.
The contract bushland sites are chosen based on the following criteria:
- Conservation of core bushland areas that are the largest, the least disturbed and zoned appropriately for their protection;
- Protection/restoration of bushland areas of high conservation significance, including threatened species or endangered plant communities, and are of state and regional significance;
- Conservation of fauna habitat especially where there is core bushland and bushland corridors;
- Eradication of high priority noxious weed species listed under the Noxious Weeds Act (1993) and new incursions of invasive weed species;
- Bush regeneration on a sub-catchments basis, addressing areas at the headwaters of the catchments and drainage lines that are likely to be a seed source for further weed invasion;
- Bush regeneration in areas with high public visibility and/or high public usage including volunteer bush regeneration; and
- Bushland identified with the potential for maximum regeneration outcomes per cost invested.
Download - List of contract sites - 14kb to view the current list of regeneration sites.
View images of recent projects on Flickr.
For more information contact Anthony Newling, Coordinator – Bushland Management Operations on (02) 9847 6839.
