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Rainforest revegetation in the uplands of the Australian Wet Tropics: The Eacham Shire experience with planting models, outcomes and monitoring issues

Rainforest revegetation in the uplands of the Australian Wet Tropics: The Eacham Shire experience... RAINFOREST 1.15 Rainforest revegetation in the uplands of the Australian Wet Tropics: The Eacham Shire experience with planting models, outcomes and monitoring issues. Kylie Freebody (Revegetation Technical Supervisor, Eacham Shire Community Revegetation Unit, (formerly Wet Tropics Tree Planting Scheme) Malanda, Qld 4885, Australia; and Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia; Email: tablelandsreveg@bigpond.com ). Key words: best practice, community, restoration, riparian, succession. Introduction The Eacham Shire Community Revegetation Unit (henceforth CRU) has undertaken many revegetation projects using local rainforest species over the past 18 years. In that time, the Unit has planted more than a quarter of a million trees on sites covering more than 80 hectares, on the Atherton Tablelands, north Queensland. The CRU was formerly part of the Wet Tropics Tree Planting Scheme (WTTPS), instigated by rainforest ecologist Geoff Tracey as a retraining program for timber industry workers displaced following World Heritage listing of the Wet Tropics Rainforests in 1988. The majority of CRU projects, both past and present, aim to reinstate the local vegetation community in regionally strategic areas such as landscape linkages, riparian corridors and remnants that provide habitat for rare and threatened wildlife species such as the Cassowary ( http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecological Management & Restoration Wiley

Rainforest revegetation in the uplands of the Australian Wet Tropics: The Eacham Shire experience with planting models, outcomes and monitoring issues

Freebody, Kylie
Ecological Management & Restoration , Volume 8 (2) – Aug 1, 2007
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RAINFOREST 1.15 Rainforest revegetation in the uplands of the Australian Wet Tropics: The Eacham Shire experience with planting models, outcomes and monitoring issues. Kylie Freebody (Revegetation Technical Supervisor, Eacham Shire Community Revegetation Unit, (formerly Wet Tropics Tree Planting Scheme) Malanda, Qld 4885, Australia; and Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia; Email: tablelandsreveg@bigpond.com ). Key words: best practice, community, restoration, riparian, succession. Introduction The Eacham Shire Community Revegetation Unit (henceforth CRU) has undertaken many revegetation projects using local rainforest species over the past 18 years. In that time, the Unit has planted more than a quarter of a million trees on sites covering more than 80 hectares, on the Atherton Tablelands, north Queensland. The CRU was formerly part of the Wet Tropics Tree Planting Scheme (WTTPS), instigated by rainforest ecologist Geoff Tracey as a retraining program for timber industry workers displaced following World Heritage listing of the Wet Tropics Rainforests in 1988. The majority of CRU projects, both past and present, aim to reinstate the local vegetation community in regionally strategic areas such as landscape linkages, riparian corridors and remnants that provide habitat for rare and threatened wildlife species such as the Cassowary (

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