Mount Alexander Shire’s Roadside Conservation Management Plan

Posted on 8 October, 2012 by Connecting Country

Mount Alexander Shire Council has now published the Roadside Conservation Management Plan, 2012-2017. Comments on the draft plan were invited in July and this final report is the result of the community consultation that took place.

As noted in the Plan, 46% of Mount Alexander region’s roadsides (1090 kilometres) have either high or medium conservation value. Roadsides are arguably our most significant biodiversity asset.

The report is a comprehensive document with chapters on the natural and functional values of roadsides as well as eighteen actions to guide Council’s roadside operations and protection works with associated costs and timing.

The Management Plan can be downloaded here.