Warmuth_Saunders_Urban fringe weed management initiative – a collaborative approach to weed management
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The Urban Fringe Weed Management Initiative is a $4 million, 4-year program between 2010-2014 that received matched funding to control environmental weeds on public lands across 7 projects. It uses a collaborative, landscape-scale, strategic and asset-based biosecurity approach to monitoring and works across over 4,000 hectares. The goals are to reduce weed cover and extent, improve biodiversity, develop collaborative relationships, and establish systems to control weeds into the future.
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Warmuth_Saunders_Urban fringe weed management initiative – a collaborative approach to weed management
- 1. Urban Fringe Weed Management Initiative Initiative Two Council’s Perspectives
- 2. Urban Fringe Weed Management Initiative $4 million 4 years (10/11–13/14) Matched funding Environmental weed control Public land 7 projects
- 3. Underlying Principles Collaboration – Project working group Landscape-scale Strategic Asset-based Biosecurity approach MERI framework (Monitoring Evaluating Reporting Improvement)
- 4. Warrandyte to Kinglake Habitat Corridor
- 6. Systems: Planning, Mapping and Reporting
- 7. Tall Damp Forest High population European gardens Dandenong Ranges = lots of weeds Strong environmental community volunteers
- 8. Methods
- 9. What makes these projects work? Effective Project Working Group Creative Project Coordinator Landscape Scale Strategic Planning Adaptive Processes Accountability
- 10. What will our UFWMI legacy be? Reduced weed cover and extent Over 4,000 hectares Over $2 million of on-ground weed control Improved biodiveristy Developed collaborative relationships Leveraged other funding Systems and planning for the future