Published:
2001
A guide to the planning and management of restoration projects.
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Complete guide
Protecting and restoring our natural heritage (PDF, 14,000K)
Note: This is a very large file and may be slow to open
You can open it in sections below.
In sections
- 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
- 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
Contact
Also available for purchase from:
Motukarara Native Plant Nursery | |
Phone: | +64 3 329 7846 |
Fax: | +64 3 329 7041 |
Email: | motukarara@doc.govt.nz |
Address: |
Waihora Park 136 Park Rd Motukarara Christchurch 7672 |
Postal Address: |
RD 2 Christchurch 7672 |
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