Resources
Useful Documents and Publications | Links
1. Resources for Environmental Works
- List of Contractors for Mt Alexander region
- Pest plant and animal control handbook
- Revegetation – preparing and planting
- Planting local provenance – information sheet
- Guidelines for managing Indigenous Cultural Heritage on site
2. Online interactive mapping tools
3. Case Studies
- Malcolm Fyffe
- Karen and Elton Baker
- Interview with Maurie Dynon (3MB .mp3 file)
- Farming Benefits of Connecting Country
4. Biodiversity Blueprint
The following downloadable documents have been taken from the Biodiversity Blueprint. If you would like a hardcopy of the Blueprint please contact Beth Mellick.
- What is Connecting Country (PDF)
- Biodiversity Blueprint Overview (PDF)
- Website and Interactive Mapping Tool (PDF)
- Maps (all jpg images):
Map 2: Pre-1750 Vegetation
Map 3: Current Vegetation
Map 4: Public and Private Land
Map 5: Conservation Significance
Map 6: Flora and Fauna
Map 7: Waterway Condition
Map 8: On-ground Achievements
Map 9: Voluntary Conservation on Private Land
Map 10: Project Ideas – West
Map 11: Project Ideas – Central
Map 12: Project Ideas – East - Guidelines for Consideration of Projects (PDF)
5. Relevant projects
6. Local/regional resource documents (external links)
- Shire Conservation Strategy
- Regional Catchment Strategy
- Regional Native Vegetation Plan
- River Health Plan
- Victorian Best Practice Native Vegetation Management (under construction)
7. Useful reading
- Laying the Foundation (Effective Landscape Restoration for Native Biodiversity in Northern Victoria – 1.6Mb PDF)
- Recconnecting Country at a Landscape scale (244Kb PDF)
- New Conservation Stewards (804Kb PDF)
- Seeing the Wood for the Trees (What to look for when purchasing carbon offsets – 324Kb PDF)
- Landscape Design Tips (1.2Mb)
- Gap-crossing decisions of forest birds in a fragmented landscape
8. Useful Weblinks
- North Central Catchment Management Authority
- Norman Wettenhall Foundation
- Trust for Nature
- Parks Victoria
- Department of Sustainability and Environment
- Greening Australia
- Department of Primary Industries
- Shire of Mount Alexander
- Birds Australia
- Native Vegetation Management Best Practice
- Land and Water Australia
- Environment Victoria
- Victoria Naturally Alliance
- Habitat 141
- BRIT TAFE Conservation and Land Management Blog
