C urrarong Natural Resources MManagement Strategy December 2001 CURRARONG NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT STRATEGY Adopted 18/12/01 Currarong Natural Resources File 12406 Management Strategy FOREWORD Why A Natural Resources Management Strategy? Currarong’s waterways and their catchments are important community assets for environmental, economic, recreational and social reasons. Increasing demands for residential and recreational opportunities need to be balanced with protection of the very values that people find attractive at Currarong. We need to ensure the long-term protection of our environment, and to minimise our impacts on the natural resources of the area. To this end, Shoalhaven City Council, NSW and Commonwealth Government agencies and the community have prepared this Natural Resources Management Strategy for Currarong Creek, Abrahams Bosom Creek, Plutus Creek and their catchments. It acknowledges past environmental management, attempts to integrate current programs and proposes some new approaches. We are doing this to safeguard the ecology of the creeks and their catchments, to balance potentially competing uses and to provide a framework for future planning. Project supported by: For more information on this project please contact: Natural Resources and Floodplain Unit Shoalhaven City Council Phone: 02 4429 3111 Fax: 02 4429 3175 Email:
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