Protecting and restoring our natural heritage - a practical guide

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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)

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• 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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