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Protecting and restoring our natural heritage (PDF, 14,000K)
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• Introduction (PDF, 1397K)
  • Managing remnant ecosystems
  • Landscape restoration
• Legal protection (PDF, 238K)
• • Protection options
  • Funding sources and contacts
• Key steps to effective management (PDF, 1504K)
• • Management plans
  • Site assessment
  • Weed control
  • Animal pest control
  • Domestic stock
  • Buffering
  • Monitoring
• Remnant ecosystems and their management PDF (2819K)
• • Forests and shrublands
  • Grasslands and herbfields
  • Wetlands and riparian areas
  • Coastal dunelands and banks
• Initiating a restoration project (PDF, 1345K
• • Contributing to conservation
  • Reasons for restoration plantings
  • Resources and contacts
  • Restoration proposals
• Key steps to effective restoration (PDF, 35K)
• • Site plan and inventory
  • Site history and species list
  • Planting plans
  • Budgeting
  • Record keeping
• Plant supply and propagation (PDF, 81K)
• • Genetic source and provenance
  • Propagation and plant stock
• Site preparation (PDF, 1225K)
• • Fencing
  • Weed and pest control
  • Ground preparation
  • Vegetation clearance
  • Herbicides
  • Providing temporary shelter
• Planting tools and people management PDF (1601K)
• • Tools and people management
  • Timing
  • Plant numbers and spacings
  • Plant storage and watering
  • Planting techniques
  • Fertiliser and watering
  • Mulching
• Maintaining a restoration project (PDF, 453K)
• • Weed control
  • Animal pests and stock
  • Plant replacement/blanking
  • Secondary species
  • Removing shelter
  • Monitoring and adapting management
• Restoration case studies
• • Part one (PDF, 3,853K)
  • Part two (PDF 2,723K)
• References and selcted bibliography and Appendix one: Invasive Weeds (PDF, 92K)

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Legal protection
• Key steps to effective management
• Native ecosystems and their management
• Initiating a restoration project
• Key steps to effective restoration
• Plant supply and propagation
• Nursery plant grades and their characteristics
• Site preparation
• Common herbicides used to control weeds
• Planting tools and people management
• Maintaining a restoration project
• Animal pest control poisons
• Restoration case studies
• Identification books
• Appendix one: Invasive weeds
• The decline of New Zealands freshwater wetlands

Publication information

Authors: Mark Davis - freelance ecologist and Dr. Colin Meurk - Landcare Research plant ecologist

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