PLANSCAPES is a multi-property scale planning initiative
addressing natural resource management issues in the South West NRM
Ltd region, including:
- grazing of land types in excess of safe carrying
capacities;
- absence of fire;
- loss of ground cover vegetation;
- soil erosion;
- salinity;
- decline in water quality;
- native and exotic weed invasion;
- pest animal infestation; and
- biodiversity loss.
PLANSCAPES targets groups of land managers in priority
landscapes to undertake a series of workshops consisting of
exercises in goal setting, resource inventory, mapping, action
planning and monitoring and evaluation. An optional Grazing
Land Management project component, delivered by the Department of
Primary Industries and Fisheries promotes the use of local research
on grazing systems to assist in the formulation of action
plans.
