Management Plan Summary

The objective of the project is to undertake adequate monitoring of the wetland before, during and after a wetting and drying cycle to ensure that the water regime management guidelines do not have a negative impact, on wetland health. In particular long lived vegetation is not harmed, Stalinization of the wetland does not occur and threatened communities and habitats are not endangered.

Broad Objectives

Maintain community capacity to manage the wetland.
Maintain the health of old and young river red gums.
Support and increase knowledge of the response of aquatic vegetation to a modified hydrological regime.
Reduce the abundance of exotic species (both plant and animal).
Maintain good water quality in the wetland complex.

Current Activities

The primary activities of our organization in 2004-2006 were to:

Continue to have bi-monthly meetings and more recently a works program followed by meetings 4 x per year. Sub-committees formed as needed and separate meetings held.
Hands on activities with a monitoring programme carried out by committee members and volunteers, (photo points, tree heath, groundwater & surface water salinity, bird, frog and vegetation survey).
Undertake documentation of the data collected under instruction from the RMCWMB.
Manage the hydrological regime of the wetlands as per our legal requirement.
Improve community awareness via programmes e.g. brochures, displays, wetland conference, development of a website.
Planning future directions and seek funding to support future projects.
Profile raising by submitting applications for various awards.