With good planting, you should be able to meet conservation objectives, as well as improving farm productivity and value. On a landscape scale, planting for revegetation should provide buffer areas for existing remnant vegetation, expand these areas, or provide links to allow wildlife and seed/pollen movement.
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Waterways are vital wildlife corridors and by revegetating along waterways you’ll increases bank stability and reduce erosion.
Revegetation can be used to provide shade and shelter for stock, pastures and crops. North-south shelterbelts shelter from morning and afternoon sun and from cold south-westerlies and hot, dry westerly and north-westerly winds.
If you have remnant vegetation on your property, it is far cheaper and easier to protect these sites than to revegetate degraded or completely cleared areas.
Areas of native vegetation are pockets of biodiversity and contain seed sources, birds and other predators of insect pests and useful soil micro-organisms. These areas should be managed so that natural regeneration is encouraged – removing and reducing grazing pressure, supplementary planting to add shrubs or grassland layers or selective weed control to allow native seedlings to establish.
It is generally best to secure the conditions of these areas before tackling more degraded areas, enhancing mature stands of trees in good condition will provide substantial habitat.
It is generally best to plant species that are found naturally in the area, as they are adapted to local soils and climate conditions. When selecting species, look carefully at site conditions and try match up native species adapted to these.
For more information please contact upper.shoalhaven@gmail.com to receive a Revegetation for Braidwood Booklet.
