from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife monitoring of groundcover at 6 monthly Service to control weeds in Endangered intervals must be undertaken. Ecological Communities (EECs). Fire Management Grazing Management The landholder must not carry out any burning Grazing must be excluded unless it is for Native Vegetation or Riparian Protection or compatible with the proposed NRM actions Regeneration, and for Revegetation of Highly and intended outcomes. Technical advice Erodible Soils unless required to do so under should be sought from LLS staff or other the Rural Fires Act 1997, or in accordance with suitably qualified persons. a LLS approved Fire Plan. Burning must Project activities and outcomes determine if involve an ecologically appropriate fire projects involve sustainable grazing or management regime that promotes strategic grazing. biodiversity outcomes. Technical advice should be sought from LLS staff or other Sustainable grazing: suitably qualified persons. Grazing management practices that increase pasture and productivity without high inputs, improve farm profitability, increase rainfall capture and enhance both on and resources. This requires a good understanding of pasture growth processes, managing stock feed demand against herbage mass availability, managing for land capability, maintaining high levels of groundcover and pasture litter and increasing pasture perenniality and species diversity. All activities for sustainable grazing incentives must be carried out and monitored with a sustainable grazing plan. Strategic Grazing: Grazing management practices used as a land management tool for outcomes such as bushfire fuel load reduction, weed control or increasing native plant diversity. It involves short grazes at limited strategic times and to an extent compatible with achieving NRM rather than production outcomes. It predominantly entails stock exclusion. Grazing must be excluded for projects that deliver native vegetation, riverine or biodiversity outcomes, unless it is compatible with a given vegetation community that is present (e.g. grassy woodland), its current condition, proposed future condition and proposed management actions. Where strategic grazing is appropriate, it should follow a minimum period of stock exclusion of 3 years to initiate and promote natural regeneration and to ensure any necessary revegetation plantings (groundcover, shrubs and or trees) are established. Strategic grazing thereafter should be limited to a maximum of 8 weeks in any one year, a maximum of 2 weeks grazing within any one grazing period and with grazing periods a minimum of 8 weeks apart. A minimum of 70% groundcover must be maintained, with stock excluded during declared droughts and immediately following heavy rainfall. Step point and photo point
from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to control weeds in Endangered Ecological Communities (EECs). Grazing Management Grazing must be excluded unless it is compatible with the proposed NRM actions and intended outcomes. Technical advice should be sought from LLS staff or other suitably qualified persons. Project activities and outcomes determine if projects involve sustainable grazing or strategic grazing. Sustainable grazing: Grazing management practices that increase pasture and productivity without high inputs, improve farm profitability, increase rainfall capture and enhance both on and resources. This requires a good understanding of pasture growth processes, managing stock feed demand against herbage mass availability, managing for land capability, maintaining high levels of groundcover and pasture litter and increasing pasture perenniality and species diversity. All activities for sustainable grazing incentives must be carried out and monitored with a sustainable grazing plan. Strategic Grazing: Grazing management practices used as a land management tool for outcomes such as bushfire fuel load reduction, weed control or increasing native plant diversity. It involves short grazes at limited strategic times and to an extent compatible with achieving NRM rather than production outcomes. It predominantly entails stock exclusion. Grazing must be excluded for projects that deliver native vegetation, riverine or biodiversity outcomes, unless it is compatible with a given vegetation community that is present (e.g. grassy woodland), its current condition, proposed future condition and proposed management actions. Where strategic grazing is appropriate, it should follow a minimum period of stock exclusion of 3 years to initiate and promote natural regeneration and to ensure any necessary revegetation plantings (groundcover, shrubs and or trees) are established. Strategic grazing thereafter should be limited to a maximum of 8 weeks in any one year, a maximum of 2 weeks grazing within any one grazing period and with grazing periods a minimum of 8 weeks apart. A minimum of 70% groundcover must be maintained, with stock excluded during declared droughts and immediately following heavy rainfall. Step point and photo point monitoring of groundcover at 6 monthly intervals must be undertaken. Fire Management The landholder must not carry out any burning for Native Vegetation or Riparian Protection or Regeneration, and for Revegetation of Highly Erodible Soils unless required to do so under the Rural Fires Act 1997, or in accordance with a LLS approved Fire Plan. Burning must involve an ecologically appropriate fire management regime that promotes biodiversity outcomes. Technical advice should be sought from LLS staff or other suitably qualified persons.
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