Grassy Plains of Melbourne’s West Mapping conservation priorities Colleen Miller
Grassy Plains What are they good for Grassy Plains What are they good for? What are our conservation priorities? Perspective?
Why is it so? What do we know? History Burning Grazing Farming Fauna Flora Weeds Pest Animals Weed Control Types and rates of herbicide Manual Removal Experiments Sugar Planting Grazing
Looking outward – Andrew Booth What was missed, what should be fight for? Still in private ownership? Precinct Structure Planning Process
Where to from here Maintain the status quo/aim higher than weed control? Technical Advisory Group / Grassland Authority Integration into daily lives / access? Paths? routes ?
Can we use maps?