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Stirlings to Forests Conservation Planning Porongurup Ranges to Mount Lindesay Stirling Range to Mount Lindesay Gondwana Link Stirlings to Forests Conservation Planning Porongurup Ranges to Mount Lindesay Stirling Range to Mount Lindesay i Gondwana Link Stirlings to Forests Conservation Planning Porongurup Ranges to Mount Lindesay Stirling Range to Mount Lindesay by Melinda Lyons and Clare Jones January 2009 Report prepared by Green Skills for the Gillamii Centre, Cranbrook Project funded by Lotterywest ii Acknowledgements Thank you to all participants in workshops, email surveys and those who provided individual feedback throughout the project to assist ecological connectivity in the planning area. Thank you to Megan Jones and Belinda Smith from the Gillamii Centre for additional support and feedback. Thank you also to staff at the Gondwana Link office in Albany. Sincere thanks to the following Green Skills staff for their involvement in the project: David McNamara, Basil Schur, Clare Jones and Melinda Lyons. Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Background to Landscape Restoration Planning.................................................................................................. 6 Gondwana Link – Forest to Stirling Planning Approach..................................................................................... 8 Selecting a Method................................................................................................................................................... 8 .................................................... 9 Planning Process ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 Field Assessment and Stakeholder Consultation............................................................................................... 9 Bibliography of Current Research .................................................................................................................... 9 Description of the area ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Porongurup to Mt Lindesay/ Mt Roe Link .............................................................................................................. 10 Stirling to Mt Lindesay/ Mt Roe Link..................................................................................................................... 10 Findings ................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Email Survey.......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Collaboration Workshop......................................................................................................................................... 12 Survey and Workshop Summary ............................................................................................................................ 12 Threats and Stresses....................................................................................................................................... 12 Strategies to Address Threats and Stresses ..................................................................................................... 13 What is being done or could be developed?.................................................................................................... 13 3 Existing Projects - Needs Funding.................................................................................................................. 13 Existing Project – Unknown Funding Status .................................................................................................. 14 New Projects to Develop – Need Funding...................................................................................................... 14 Roadside survey of linkage area ............................................................................................................................. 15 Porongurup to Mt Lindesay / Mt Roe ............................................................................................................. 15 Stirlings to Mt Lindesay / Mt Roe .................................................................................................................. 15 Research................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Mapping Young and Old Land Units.............................................................................................................. 16 Other imperatives of planning for ecological connectivity.............................................................................. 16 Commercialisation of Native Flora................................................................................................................. 17 Other Afforestation Opportunities.................................................................................................................. 17 Recommendations ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Stakeholder Priorities ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Roadside Survey..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Research................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Old and Young Land Units ............................................................................................................................ 18 Imperatives in regards to fauna ...................................................................................................................... 18 Commercialisation of Native Flora................................................................................................................. 19 References............................................................................................................................................................. 20 Maps and Appendices .......................................................................................................................................... 22 Map 1: 'Old' and 'Young' Landscape Soil Subsystems with possible Corridor Linkages as presented in the Dept of CALM's South Coast Macro Corridor Network Report of January 2006............................................ 23 Appendix 1: Email Survey Responses............................................................................................................ 24 Appendix 2: Workshop Flyer ......................................................................................................................... 26 Appendix 3: Summary of Collaboration Workshop........................................................................................ 27 Appendix 4: Field Survey Observation Points Porongurup to Mt Lindesay / Mt Roe...................................... 31 Appendix 5: Field Survey Results Porongurup to Mt Lindesay / Mt Roe....................................................... 32 Appendix 6: Field Survey Observation Points Stirling to Mt Lindesay/ Mt Roe Field Survey......................... 36 Appendix 7 : Field Survey Results Stirling to Mt Lindesay/ Mt Roe Field Survey.......................................... 37 Appendix 8: Critical species within connectivity and permeability context – Forest to Stirling’s.................... 40 4 Introduction The Gondwana Link Project aims to re-establish a healthy ecological connection between the wet forests of south west Western Australia and the mallee and woodland fringing the Nullarbor Plain. The current focus of the Gondwana Link Program is on rebuilding the ecological resilience in the section between the Stirling and Porongurup National Parks and Mt Lindesay in the Walpole Wilderness Area. The region between the Stirling Range and the southern forests is the only interruption in the link between the “karri forest of the SW corner to the woodlands and mallee bordering the Nullarbor Plain“(Vision Statement, Gondwana Link, homepage). The Gondwana Link West project, funded by Lotterywest through the Gillamii centre, and undertaken by Green Skills Inc. has taken up the challenge of “closing the gap”. The “Gondwana Link – Forest to Stirling” project area encompasses the area between the Stirling and Porongurup Range National Parks and extends west towards Mt Lindesay and Mt Roe National Parks (now collectively known as the Walpole Wilderness Area) in the southern forests. The area has been broken into three sections with the aim of investigating the potential for establishing ecological connections in each of these regions (Figure One). Gondwana Link: Stirling Ranges to Southern Forests sub elements ! Stirling to Porongurup Link ! Stirling to Mt Lindesay/ Mt Roe Link (Walpole Wilderness Area) ! Porongurup to Mt Lindesay/ Mt Roe Link (Walpole Wilderness Area) The project elements included three sets of planning
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