5.2
A one-page property recovery plan
One page, filled in once and revisited each year. It turns the rest of the guide into a decision you have actually made.
Your recovery plan
- 1 — My place
- Bioregion (1.1) · EVC and pre-1750 EVC (1.2) · vegetation division and its tolerable fire intervals (1.4) · fire years on record (1.3) · gap since the previous fire · growth stage (2.1)
- 2 — What I have set up
- Photo points (how many, where) · monitoring plots · listening station · trail cameras · date started
- 3 — What I found
- Species list started (date) · layers present and missing (3.3) · hollow-bearing trees per hectare in each plot (4.6) · birds recorded · nocturnal animals recorded, native and pest · weed patches mapped and which species
- 4 — What this tells me
- Is a layer missing? · Are hollows short? · Which weeds are the priority (4.3)? · Which pest animals are present (4.4)?
- 5 — Three things I will do this year
- Written as actions with a month against each. Three, not ten.
- 6 — What I will check next year
- The date, and what I will compare it against.
Keep it with your photo point records. The value is in filling it in again in twelve months beside the first version — that comparison is the whole point of Part 3.
Needed
A printable version of this page, designed to be filled in by hand, alongside the field sheets in 6.2.