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The Running Postman Is Printed on Maine Recycled Silk Paper, Made from 60% Post Consumer Waste Fibre and 40% FSC® Certified on the Cover: Wombat The RunningPostman Newsletter of the Private Land Conservation Program June 2017 • Issue 23 Building partnerships with landowners for the sustainable management Print ISSN 1835-6141 and conservation of natural values across the landscape. Online ISSN 2204-390X Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment 1 Manager’s message – June 2017 As a long time enthusiast for private the reader with some leads and represents a hugely significant, land conservation, I am continually ideas for advancing knowledge voluntary commitment to nature amazed to observe the positive in areas of reserve management, conservation by a wide cross advancement of our understanding and also provide topical insights section of the Tasmanian community of nature, and at the same time to natural phenomena such as the and represents the protection the eternal passion that so many recent fireblight beetle plagues. of large areas of threatened and people have for the protection of under-reserved vegetation types, natural values. In this edition of the On a very positive note, the recent populations of threatened species, Running Postman, examples of both registration of a large covenant in geoconservation values and other new knowledge and abiding passion the Central Highlands has taken the significant natural values outside the are showcased. total area of private land reserved in public reserve system. Tasmania to over 100,000 hectares. The progression of ecosystem change This incredible milestone has taken I am immensely proud to be the due to global warming is daunting, but nearly 20 years to achieve since humble manager of a diverse team it is clear that our best responses come the first covenanting programs of conservation scientists and through observation and dialogue. started up in 1998/99. Since that professionals who have achieved The recent Conservation Landholders time there have been a number of so much over the past 20 years. I Tasmania forum on climate change covenanting programs, some with consider their achievements, when highlighted the value of citizen incentive payments, others without, aligned with the enormous voluntary science and sharing of knowledge in with the result being private land contributions of land owners and our developing locally relevant responses covenants spread out across all partner organisations to be world class. and understanding for management of regions of Tasmania, from coastal I hope you also feel some measure reserves in a changing environment. I areas to high altitude terrains, and of satisfaction that your reserve and congratulate the CLT for once again ranging in size from very small your efforts are part of a much larger tackling an issue of relevance and focus right up to the largest covenant national focus on nature conservation. for reserve managers. (a Tasmanian Land Conservancy covenant) which is 8760ha. Peter Voller, The range of articles and topics Manager, Natural Values covered in this issue I hope provide The 100,000 ha milestone Conservation Branch In this Issue Manager’s message - June 2017 2 Managing dry sclerophyll forest 3 Mange outbreaks threaten wombats, but there ARE ways you can help 4 Land for Wildfire? 6 Fireblight leaf beetle 7 Managing private reserves in the new world of climate change 8 Protecting wildlife species and their habitats 10 Flashes of iridescent blue in the garden 11 Join the ‘Recent Ecological Change in Australia’ Survey! 11 Future events 12 Selling property? 12 The Running Postman is printed on Maine Recycled Silk paper, made from 60% post consumer waste fibre and 40% FSC® certified On the cover: Wombat. Photo: Tourism Tasmania & Masaaki Aihara. virgin fibre. Maine recycled is also CarbonNeutral®. Design and layout: Land Tasmania Design Unit, DPIPWE. 2 The Running Postman • June 2017 Managing dry sclerophyll forest Two years ago Conservation all dry forest landowners. In fact encounters (including with some Landowners Tasmania (CLT) held a it emerged as the main topic for serrated tussock that they inherited field weekend at Bruny Island which discussion in the Q & A session and have nearly succeeded in was so popular it was decided to chaired by John Thompson and eradicating) plus intriguing insights hold another weekend get-together, supported by Fred, Phil Watson, and into their regeneration work and this time at Cambridge, on the ecologists Phil Barker and Allison motivations for doing what they do. theme of managing dry sclerophyll Woolley. forest. Further along the scenic wine route Phil Watson is the NRM Planner for between Cambridge and Richmond, After some early birds met for pizza Clarence City Council, and he was our visit to the property owned by and chat on the Friday evening, an generous in sharing the model used Fred and Mercedes offered similar eventual total of 38 members and by the Council for developing Bush steep slopes and impressive views professional colleagues gathered and Coastal Activity Plans for the through lovely open woodland, and at Cambridge Hall early on 200 km of coastline and the large prompted discussion about the Saturday 11th February for a close reserves network in the municipality. roles of owners and the fire service encounter with the dry sclerophyll The main aims of the Plans are to on conservation land. The Duncans’ landscape that most of us know capture community knowledge home is not far along the road from well, even if only on the edges of and build shared responsibility, and the property and was where we our vision as we travel the southern Phil is passionate about developing were supposed to end up enjoying and eastern parts of Tassie. strategies for achieving ongoing a meal in their olive grove. Not so; demonstrable results by involving the weather defeated us and we Botanist Fred Duncan and his wife, the disparate stakeholders – retreated to the hall, nothing if not Mercedes, who live near Cambridge Council staff, scientists, landowners flexible! where they own a covenanted and community groups. On property close by, were responsible Sunday morning we spent Many thanks to Fred, Robin Garnett, for organising much of the weekend several hours with Phil in the John Thompson and Phil Collier for for us; Fred also started the beautiful Allocasuarina and white all their work, and to Phil Watson, presentations with a clear overview gum woodlands, heathlands Fred, Mercedes, Allison and Phil, of the distribution of dry forests and kangaroo grasslands of who allowed us to enjoy their land and woodlands principally in the Waverley Park Nature Reserve on and learn from it. Thanks also to eastern half of Tasmania; and their Mornington Hill. the support from Magali Wright interrelationship with climate, from NRM South and our other topography, land use and fire Allison Woolley and Phil five partners: Cradle Coast NRM, practices by aboriginal people, later Barker, who also gave morning NRM North, DPIPWE, Landcare settlement, and, of course, wildfire. presentations at the hall on Tasmania and the Tasmanian Land This latter issue of wildfire, along Saturday, took us after lunch to Conservancy. with questions surrounding fuel their lovely property close by to reduction burns and the capacity walk (or drive!) up some stiff slopes Kay Harman to regenerate after fire and restore and through eucalypt woodlands, to biodiversity, is of abiding interest to enjoy both wide views and intimate Photos (L to R): Phil Barker with CLT members in his dry sclerophyll forest. Phil Watson entertains CLT members with memorable stories at the Waverley Flora Reserve. The Running Postman • June 2017 June 2017 • The Running Postman 3 Photos: Robin Garnett Mange outbreaks threaten wombats, but there ARE ways you can help The Narawntapu National Park on wombats in some areas. In their once it has entered a wombat used to be a place where you research at Narawntapu National population it appears they maintain could be guaranteed to see Park, his team of researchers its existence. Mange is widespread wombats all over the marsupial has not found any wombats that throughout the wombat’s range, but lawns, but now there are only a survive mange infection and, seems to have been increasing in handful of wombats left, due to thus, there is not any evidence presence lately in particular regions the ravages of sarcoptic mange at this time of resistance in the of Tasmania. Nationally, sarcoptic that has killed approximately 94 population. DPIPWE’s Tasmanian mange is the biggest disease threat percent of the local wombats. Spotlight Survey Program showed to wombat populations. “Populations around the central counts statewide actually increased Mange is thought to spread mainly north, particularly, as well as some between 1985 and 2015. There as a result of sharing burrows. other parts of the state, have been was a decrease in wombat counts Wombats are usually solitary but very badly affected”, says University in the West Tamar area during will share burrows on occasion of Tasmania researcher, Dr Scott 2009-2015 but a stable overall or use the same burrow, but on Carver. population around the state over differing days. In the burrow, the this period. Whether or not mange “This is a devastating infestation mites may spread through direct will affect the state population over impacting on wombats, and contact and also indirectly, as mites time, there is no doubt that it is a we can’t allow them to suffer” can survive for short periods (up cruel disease for individuals. says Oma Rodger, president of to three weeks) independently in Tasmanian Wildlife Rehabilitation Mange disease is caused by the environment. Away from a host Council and state president for microscopic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, or a favourable environment, mites Wombat Protection Society which burrow into the skin, leading starve and desiccate quickly. of Australia, who has received to a thick, scaly crust on the skin Fortunately, an ingenious and simple increasing reports of mange from and hair loss.
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