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Managing Invasive Native Scrub
Invasive Native Scrub (INS) is thickening and encroaching native trees and shrubs. This phenomenon is a serious issue in the central-west and western regions of NSW (and rangelands elsewhere). INS can have a serious adverse impact on habitats, wider landscape health, communities and farming operations.
The Central West CMA is undertaking a collaborative program of research and information sharing to help both landholders and government better understand this issue. Project partners include the Western CMA, the Namoi CMA, the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC), the University of New England (UNE), CSIRO, The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), GHD and Geoff Cunningham Natural Resource Consultants.
We are keen to work with the farming community on these projects and hope you are able to help. Local knowledge and experience will be coupled with relevant scientific research to ensure results are sound and useful to the community and government.
The program will lead to a better understanding of INS management principles and what management techniques work under difference circumstances. For further information about the Invasive Native Scrub research program please contact Rod Campbell from the Central West CMA (02 6881 3430 or email rodney.campbell@cma.nsw.gov.au).
This page will be updated as new information and results become available.
About the INS Research Program (November 2007 Release)
Classification and Mapping project
Program newsletter: Scrubbed Up
Scrubbed Up issue 4 (current issue)
Final reports from research projects (added when final)
Landholder Knowledge (10 July 2008)
INS management guides
Managing INS seedling growth (12 May 2008)
Management burning planning guide (9 September 2008)
Case studies of INS management
Burning to rehabilitate native pastures on ‘Norma Vale’ (11 March 2009)
Chaining and burning to rehabilitate native pastures on ‘Mirrabooka’ (11 March 2009)
Waterspreading and restoring native grasslands at 'Florida' (12 April 2008)
The science behind the INS tool
The aim of this report is to document the science underpinning the Invasive Native Scrub (INS) tool under the Environmental Outcomes Assessment Methodology (EOAM). The project was carried out in close consultation with the Central West Catchment Management Authority (CMA) and with the members of the INS Working Group. The INS tool was developed in 2005 by a working group of scientists and CMA and agency staff. The INS tool is one of the tools for assessing the impact of clearing native vegetation within the EOAM under the Native Vegetation Regulation 2005.
To find out more about the science behind the Invasive Native Scrub tool, click here...
Further Information:
If you would like more information from the Central West CMA please email: cw@cma.nsw.gov.au