Save The Bush Toolkit

This Toolkit was created for you as a landowner to enable you to assess the natural resources of your farm and develop management strategies that you believe are appropriate for your future.

WHAT'S INSIDE?
There are 9 Kits in the current package. They focus on different natural features you might find on your farm such as:

  • bushland;

  • scattered farm trees;

  • farm watercourses;

  • native plants and animals.

Kit 9, Farm Planning for Bushland and Wildlife, shows you how to develop a FARM PLAN that links nature conservation with your other agricultural enterprises.

You will also find a set of BUSH INFO notes in this toolkit. They provide you with more detail about some of the key ideas that are introduced in the Kits. You can browse through them to see what's there and link them later on to Kits that you are working through.

If you live in the Central Western Region (which extends from Lithgow to Lake Cargelligo) you will also find a WILDLIFE SPECIES LIST for your area. Use this list when you get to Kit 8: Surveying Farm Wildlife.

HOW DO I USE THE KITS?

The Kits have been specifically developed for use in the CENTRAL WESTERN REGION of NSW. However, they will be useful within similar land systems elsewhere in Australia.

These Kits are not like other advisory brochures that you may have used in the past which simply asked you to read them!

The Kits provide you with clear action steps to follow in assessing your farm's natural resources and designing your own strategies to manage them into the future.

When you get outside and work through these steps you will find that each Kit will take you through a learning experience that connects directly to what you actually have on your property. The landowners who tested the Kits commented on the benefit of this experience.

Charles Sturt University gives Central Tablelands Regional Landcare permission to use, reproduce, distribute and communicate the Save the Bush toolkit, by David Goldney & Sue Wakefield, Environmental Studies Unit 1997, on the CTRLN Website.

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