Is Management the Key? |
Managed area |
Unmanaged area |
same area, same rainfall, same animals, different behaviour, different trends, … |
different outcomes… |
different outcomes… |
Snapshots |
A good day for it… |
Sam Bingham all the way from Denver… |
Andrew Storey all the way from Perth… |
Human induced erosion… |
Humans and animals…
What roles do these introduced species have? |
Sam explains about erosion-problems
in other parts of the world
|
Watch, wait and react vs. watch, anticipate, act… |
Introduced mega-fauna… a tool to manage
Australian landscapes? |
“ATTENTION!” |
On Kachana, beauty lies in the eye of the beholder… |
Micro-climate… |
Introduction to the fire-experiment |
When the first humans arrived in “Australia” this area
would have been covered in forest… |
What do we want to see here in 100 years time? |
This is exciting! All aboard and let’s go! |
New species new problems… |
Waiting for bed-rock to be exposed is not an option |
At a glance things may look fine… |
but a closer look at the top of water-shed
may challenge us… |
Many management actions have consequences
that do not meet the eye… |
“Vegetation:
an ecological stabiliser or destabiliser?” S. B. |
Should we burn it? |
Should we re-cycle it? |
Who gets the job? |
Exotic species: part of the problem or part of the solution? |
On Kachana we use animals as a management tool |
We use animals to grow grass… |
We use animals to stabilise creek-banks… |
We even use animals to revitalise hill side forests |
Is management a key? |