Resources

General

  • Rural Living Handbook: A Guide for Rural Landholders (Local Land Services)

    The Rural Living Handbook takes you through some of the major aspects of buying and managing a property as well as living and working in a rural area.

    Its aim is to assist you to experience the wonderful aspects of rural life as well as to make you aware of the risks and responsibilities that come with that lifestyle.

Community

The Local Environment

  • Save The Bush Toolkit

    Co-authored by Sue Wakefield, who is Central Tablelands Local Landcares Nursery Manager, and David Goldney.

    This resource provides invaluable information on how to effectively manage your land whilst improving its biodiversity and ecological value.
    This comprehensive toolkit is developed in and applicable to the Central Western Region, so can be used by anyone who is located within the Central Tablelands Local Region, and beyond.

    You can access this wonderful resource by following this link.

  • Common Native Grasses of the Central West NSW Identification Guide (Local Land Services)

    Approximately 403 grass species are found across the Central West Tablelands, Slopes and Plains of NSW, of which more than half (251) are native.

    The native grasses, especially perennial species, form an important component of pastures, native grasslands and woodland and forest understoreys. They are a valuable grazing resource and component of biodiversity in the region, as well as providing food and habitat for native animals.

  • Seed Collection Guide: Grassy Box Gum Woodland

    This note is for landowners wishing to collect native seed for revegetation projects on their land. Collection, cleaning and storage methods are outlined, as well as guidelines for ethical and sustainable collection.

  • Seed Collection Guide: Florabank Guide

    This guideline provides an overview of how to approach seed collection and the manual and mechanical collection methods that can be used. It stresses the importance of preparation and planning for seed collection and the need to collect mature seed.

  • Planting Guidelines

    Learn how to care of tube stock and how to plant them to get the best outcomes

  • A Practical Guide To Planting Tubestock Paddock Trees - John R Baker (Hovells Creek Landcare)

    A useful guide created by Hovells Creek Landcare. The booklet contains useful and beneficial information around effectively planting tubestock – specific to the Central Tablelands. A great resource with an abundance of helpful information to have the best environmental outcomes when planting tubestock, and also how to be effective in protecting tubestock from livestock, weather and other threats.

  • Biological Weed Control Manual (DPIRD)

    This best practice manual addresses common weed biological control questions and methodology issues and provides the key steps for understanding weed biological control programs. The manual also provides a comprehensive overview of the biological control recommendations for more than 50 weed species. It provides detailed information about biological control agents, including their life cycle, impact and abundance; and how to collect, rear and monitor them.

  • Blueprint to Repair Australias Landscapes (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists)
    The Wentworth Group, together with experts from academia, government and business, has developed a Blueprint to Repair Australia’s Landscapes. The Blueprint describes a suite of 24 practical actions and investments, across five key environmental asset groups, to repair Australia’s degraded landscapes.
    The objective of the Blueprint is to put forward the national case and articulate a practical vision for repairing Australia’s landscapes and, in doing so, prepare for the unprecedented climatic pressures ahead.
    The Blueprint is effectively an evidence-based prospectus laying out a 30-year action plan and identifying public and private investment opportunities that would repair much of Australia’s degraded landscapes and set Australia on a nature positive trajectory.
    The Blueprint is the most comprehensive assessment of its kind and demonstrates that it’s possible to repair Australia’s degraded landscapes – our soils, inland waters, native vegetation, threatened species and coastal environments – while boosting economic productivity and sequestering carbon in landscapes.
    It builds on the enormous effort to date at the government, business and community level and shows how repair actions can be undertaken in a way that increases agricultural productivity on prime farmland, supports jobs and businesses in regional areas, helps Australia achieve its biodiversity and climate goals and increases the resilience of ecosystems to extreme events and climate change.

Education Resources