1. 4.2.4
Management Strategies and policies for achieving and maintaining healthy and sustainable outdoor environments

2. From the study guide
Analyse specific management strategies and policies for maintaining outdoor environments.
Be able to relate public and private land management strategies and policies to environments that we have visited or that we study.
Our private land focus will be on Trust for Nature.

3. Management of:
Public Land

4. Who manages public land?
Land use category
Manager
National & State Parks
Parks Victoria
Regional Parks
Nature conservation reserves
Historic & cultural features reserves
Mostly Parks Victoria
Natural features reserves
FOrest Park (Otways)
D E P I
STATE FOREST
COASTAL RESERVES
COMMITTEES OF MANAGEMENT
COMMUNITY USE AREAS
WATER PRODUCTION AREAS
WATER AUTHORITIES
SOFTWOOD PRODUCTION
PRIVATE COMPANY AS LICENSEE
OTHER RESERVES
VARIOUS (UNDER D E P I)

5. Management Plans
A range of measures can be applied to achieve and maintain healthy natural environments.
The National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975, requires the DEPI prepare a management plan for each State and National Park.
These management plans serve as a guideline for how public land is to be managed.

6. The parks and reserves system
The creation and extension of a statewide parks and reserves system is one way to preserve and maintain natural environments.
As previously mentioned, every State and National Park that is created is required to have an individual management plan that outlines the way a park is going to be maintained.
The parks and reserves system

7. Many stakeholders and communities wish for certain practices to occur in parks, therefore the plan requires consultation with these groups.
The following ‘zones’ can be created within parks in order to balance demands from these groups:

8. Recreation/development zones
Primarily focus on high recreation use, and the provision of interpretation and visitor facilities. It is likely that these areas have sign posted and marked walking tracks, look outs, info Centre's, car parks, camp grounds with water and toilet facilities. E.g. Tidal River

9. Conservation/recreation zones
Focus on both conservation and lower impact and dispersed recreation activities. Fewer facilities are provided, with some marked tracked and camping grounds with fewer facilities. E.g. Sealers Cove

10. Conservation Zones
Provide for limited recreation use, and have a major focus on the protection of flora and fauna, natural history and the continuation of natural processes. E.g. Yanakie Isthmus.

11. Wilderness Zones
Focus on keeping the area undisturbed for the continuation of natural processes and recognising the intrinsic value of an area. Recreation may take place in this area, but modifications will not be made. E.g. North East WP

12. Are often smaller areas within a park with mostly undisturbed land or vegetation that is available for study and used to undertake comparisons with areas that encounter human interference and altercation. E.g. Grazing trials in the high plains. Vereker Creek, WP.
Reference Zones

14. management strategies
Park Rangers are those responsible for implementing strategies required to carry out the management plan of the park.
Textbook p303 - ‘The Role of a Park Ranger’.

15. Management of:
Private Land

16. More than 60% of Victoria is privately owned land
This land contains large areas of land with significant conservation value.
Therefore, management of private land is crucial to the overall state of the environment.

17. trust for nature
Trust for Nature is a not-for-profit organization that works to protect native plants and wildlife in cooperation with private landowners.
As two thirds of Victoria is privately owned, much of the flora and fauna may not be getting the necessary protection despite the need for their services such as filtrating water.
The Trust was established under the Victorian Conservation Trust Act to enable people to contribute to nature conservation by donating land or money.
Trust for Nature is now one of Victoria’s primary land conservation organizations, with several tools to help people protect biodiversity on private land.

18. vision
"There will be a shared expectation and responsibility among communities, landowners and governments that significant natural areas on privately owned land should be conserved, just as national and state parks are protected."

19. Components of conservation
The four main components of the Trust for Nature conservation program are:
Conservation Covenant - permanent protection
Stewardship Program - the support program
Revolving Fund - a cycle of success
TFN Properties - buying back the bush

20. 1. Conservation covenant
Conservation covenant = a management agreement placed on a properties title to ensure native plants and wildlife on the property are protected forever (under 1972 Victorian Conservation Trust Act).
Trust for Nature developed its Conservation Covenant Program so landowners could permanently protect native plants and wildlife on their properties.
Conservation covenants remain one of the most effective ways to protect native plants and wildlife on private land. The covenant remains attached to the title of a property, even if it is sold.

22. There are currently around 1200 covenants.

23. 2. Stewardship
Trust for Nature assists land owners to better manage their land (once under a covenant) by offering conservation management advice and property maintenance tips to each landowner, helping covenanters maintain and improve the health of native plants and wildlife on their property.
Trust for Nature will also offer landowners technical advice, information about land-management incentives (grants/funds) available to landowners, and practical assistance with land management and habitat/species monitoring.

24. 3. revolving fund
The objective of Trust for Nature's Revolving Fund is to use the real estate market to achieve conservation outcomes. Funds provided through donations and by the Australian Government are used to purchase environmentally significant land, which they then on-sell with a conservation covenant attached.
The Revolving Fund is a can target the protection of native vegetation in areas where other methods are less effective, and introduce new participants to conservation through land protection.
All money generated through the sale of the properties is wholly returned to the Fund to replenish its reserves and enable future purchases. In this way the fund revolves in perpetuity.

26. To protect native plants and wildlife, Trust for Nature buys and maintains properties with high conservation value.
This enables both the regeneration of damaged habitats and their future protection.
We also use some of these properties to demonstrate private land conservation practices.
4. TFN Properties