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Waihola–Waipori Wetlands: Weed Control and Native Plant Restoration Workshop Docdm-348042 WAIHOLA–WAIPORI WETLANDS: WEED CONTROL AND NATIVE PLANT RESTORATION WORKSHOP KEY ISSUE SCOPING REPORT Compiled by: Peter Raal September 2008 Final Key Issue Scoping Report October 2008 SCOPE The Lake Waihola Waipori Wetlands Committee is preparing a five-year weed control and native plant restoration operational plan for the Waihola-Waipori wetland system in three phases – the scoping, issues assessment and strategy production phases. This report is the product of the scoping phase of the project. The purpose of preparing a Key Issue Scoping Report is to ensure that all important issues, identified by the parties who have contributed to the scoping phase of the weed control and native plant restoration operational plan, are accurately reflected. It is also the intention that the circulation of the report will ensure that the proposed actions, to be addressed during the issues assessment phase of the project, receive adequate review. The procedure that has been applied to establish the most important areas of concern which relate to the operational plan is described in this report. Analysis of the issues associated with the Waihola-Waipori wetland system indicates that key issues can be identified which should receive priority attention. Waihola-Waipori Wetlands Final Key Issue Scoping Report October 2008 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of the scoping document This report describes the scoping procedure that has been applied to: • Develop an agreed community vision for weed control and native plant restoration within the Waihola-Waipori wetland system; and • Identify important issues that need to be addressed in the compilation of the five- year weed control and native plant restoration operational plan for the Waihola- Waipori wetland system. The aim of producing the report is threefold: firstly, it defines an agreed community vision for weed control and native plant restoration in the wetland, secondly, it ensures that important issues, identified by the various parties who have contributed to the scoping phase of the weed control and native plant restoration operational plan, are accurately reflected; and finally, the report provides some indication as to how the issues could be addressed during the Issues Assessment Phase of the project. This final Scoping Report will guide the Issues Assessment, or second phase, of the project. 1.2 Background to the project The current weed management of the Waihola-Waipori wetland system is running in a somewhat ad hoc, open book manner at present. Although there are some guiding documents, for example, the Department of Conservation Weed Control guidelines (Raal, 2003), there is no over-arching strategy document that can be referred to regarding weed control in the Waihola-Waipori wetland system as a whole. Weed control in the Waihola-Waipori wetland system is now at a stage where there is a need to take stock of the work already undertaken and focus on the future long-term weed control within the Waihola-Waipori wetland system. The aim is to develop an objective, workable and achievable five-year weed control and native plant restoration operational plan for the Waihola-Waipori wetland system as a whole. The aim of inviting interested and affected parties participation during the scoping exercise was to develop an agreed community vision regarding weed control and native plant restoration within the wetland and to ensure that all major concerns and issues relating to the proposed weed control operational plan were identified at the start of the planning phase for the project. The early identification of key issues and important issues that need to be addressed during the issue assessment phase of the project and the elimination of unimportant issues permits a more focussed approach to be adopted. Scoping also reduces the risk of key issues arising later in the process when it may be difficult to address them efficiently. The scoping procedure that has been adopted, the agreed community vision and the issues that were identified, are discussed in the following sections of this report. Final Key Issue Scoping Report October 2008 2. AGREED COMMUNITY VISION DEVELOPMENT AND KEY ISSUE SCOPING WORKSHOP 2.1 Invited participation by interested and affected parties A workshop was convened at the Waihola Hall, Waihola on 23 September 2008 in order to ensure interested and affected parties participation in the development of an agreed community vision regarding weed control and native plant restoration within the Waihola-Waipori wetland and identification and definition of key and important issues which need to be addressed in the Waihola-Waipori wetland system weed control and native plant restoration operational plan. 2.2 Workshop programme As an introduction to the workshop and to be able to understand the weed issues and to orientate delegates, the history of weed control within the Waihola-Waipori wetland system was described by Dr Peter Johnson, Pete Ravenscroft (Department of Conservation) and Steve Bryant (Otakou Runanga representative, Tatawai Trustee). After these introductory talks the meeting moved into the workshop phase. In order to maximise group participation and efficiency, the workshop was conducted using a visual gathering approach which was designed to identify an agreed community vision and the issues associated with a weed control and native plant restoration strategy for the Waihola-Waipori wetland system. The participants attending the workshop are listed in Appendix 1. During the first session of the workshop programme, the participants were tasked to raise as many ideas and needs as possible relating to the development of an agreed community vision for weed control and native plant restoration on both private and public land within the Waihola-Waipori wetland system. To stimulate thought the participants were asked the following question: “In terms of weeds and native plants, how would you like to describe your wetland in 5 year’s time?” The objective of this aspect of the workshop was to gather all people’s ideas for the wetland so that an agreed community vision, incorporating all of these needs, can be compiled. The workshop convenors used the information gathered in the first session to compile a draft “agreed community vision” which was used to help guide the afternoon’s proceedings (see Section 3 below). During the second session of the workshop programme and keeping the draft agreed community vision in mind, the participants were tasked to raise all issues which Final Key Issue Scoping Report October 2008 related to the management of weeds and native plant restoration within the Waihola- Waipori wetland system. The following question was asked “What are the stumbling blocks/obstacles that are preventing the wetland being effectively managed for weeds?” The objective of this aspect of the workshop was to identify all the issues, problem areas and opportunities that need to be addressed in the weed control operational plan for it to be successful. The purpose of this session was to ensure that no important matters or concerns would be overlooked in the compilation of the operational plan. After completion of the key issues identification process, the group was asked to dot prioritise generic areas of concern (labelled clusters). The 5 most important key issues, particularly those regarding the current and ongoing roles and responsibilities in the management and control of weeds within the Waihola-Waipori wetland system, were highlighted using this process. The final session of the workshop was to seek ideas and information to help develop a plan of action for weed control in the wetland. For the purposes of discussion and to focus the session, delegates were asked to consider how they would like to see weed control in the wetland implemented. With this in mind the following questions were posed “Assuming a limit on the amount of available resources, which weed species should we control first?” and “Which areas should be cleared of weeds first?” Final Key Issue Scoping Report October 2008 3. AGREED COMMUNITY VISION The responses to the question posed in the first workshop session are presented in a question-type format with minor editorial changes in Appendix 2. The information gathered during this session was collated and a draft “agreed community vision” compiled. The draft agreed community vision reads as follows: “A wetland system where weeds are being actively controlled according to a plan in order to maintain and enhance the diversity of habitats including a balance of open water and land, for the benefit of native plants, fish, birds and other fauna and for recreational purposes”. 4. KEY ISSUE ANALYSIS 4.1 Method of analysis All issues raised during the workshop are important and need to be addressed in the compilation of the operational plan. However, a number of these issues could be fundamentally important to weed management and native plant restoration within the Waihola–Waipori wetland system and it is therefore important that they are identified as key issues so that there can be some focus upon them. After identifying the issues and concerns, the delegates were asked to rate what they thought were the most important issues to be addressed in the weed control and native plant restoration operational plan for the Waihola-Waipori wetland system. 4.2 Results The responses to the question posed in the second workshop session are presented in a question-type format with minor editorial changes in Appendix 3. The dot rating scores for the scored generic issue statements are presented in Table 1. The scored issues are considered to be key issues that need to be comprehensively addressed before the operational plan is compiled. 4.3 Discussion 4.3.1 Issues The major issues and concerns relating to the weed control and native plant restoration operational plan for the Waihola-Waipori wetland system are contained within the 7 generic issue statements presented in Table 1 (see Appendix 3 for detail on specific issues raised).
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