Landholder Care Agreement

Landholder Care Agreement
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Thank you for contributing to the vital work of revegetation in our region! The majority, if not all, of your new plants are ‘climate ready’ which means they are genetically diverse and have the best chance of surviving future climate conditions. Monitoring your plants is incredibly valuable. It helps you to track the progress of your efforts and provides feedback to our hard-working nursery volunteers. By submitting the form below, you are joining a network of people who care for our local environment, and will receive occasional friendly notifications and reminders.
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Landholder Care Agreement
By submitting this agreement to the Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups (YAN), I agree to undertake the following measures:

1. Weed control

Manage the growth and spread of noxious and environmental weeds that negatively affect the planting area.

2. Protection from livestock, feral animals and wildlife

Protect the plants and/or planting area/s from livestock, feral animals and wildlife with fencing or appropriate tree guards. If building a new fence to protect the planting area, I will not use barbed wire (this is to protect wildlife).

3. Monitoring

a) Establish 1-2 photo monitoring points that capture a representative sample of the plants or planting area, if not the whole area. At a minimum, I will take monitoring photos after initial planting and at least once per year after planting, for a minimum of three years.

b) Monitor the survival of the plantings by counting the number ‘alive’, ‘dead’ or ‘uncertain’ in an agreed sample area, once per year for a minimum of three years after initial planting.

c) Agree to at least one visit from a representative of YAN to my planting area at a mutually convenient time.

d) Allow YAN and/or YAN’s funders to use my monitoring photos for the purposes of research, promotion, and/or reporting.

4. Additional Project Terms

Agree to any additional project terms, if applicable (see below)

Habitat Hops Project Section
Habitat Hops Project

Monitoring Guidelines and Additional Project Terms (Only applicable to those participating in the Bowning Bookham Landcare Group's Habitat Hops Project)
HH3. Monitoring plants

In addition to 3. Monitoring

a) I will:

- record groundcovers (in each new tree plot) each spring by taking a photo of the ground from chest height prior to fencing and planting; and,

- monitor the germination rate of direct seeding and survival rate of tubestock for at least 3 years after planting.

- I may also undertake additional monitoring using the Checking for Change or similar methods.

- share the monitoring photos and records with Bowning and Bookham Districts Landcare Group (BBLG) by saving a copy of these on the groups shared site (Google Drive or similar).

- allow BBLG, YAN and/or the projects funders to use my monitoring photos for the purposes of research, promotion, and/or reporting.

HH4. Additional Terms

a). Fencing and Planting
i. I will:

- Complete fencing and planting/seeding as planned each year.

- Ensure new fences include strainers/supports (with strain lengths preferably greater than 200m), steel posts 4m to 5m apart, and are made of plain wire, hinge joint, ring lock or an equivalent (not barb wire).

- Where building new fences, do so in a manner which avoids the clearing of native vegetation and to minimise harm to native wildlife.

- Maintain any fencing constructed in stock proof condition.

b) Grazing Management
i. Tree plots may be grazed only for short periods and on rotation to maintain ground cover and plant growth.

c) Other Management
i. I will:

- Not allow the clearing of native vegetation including the removal of hollow logs except for the limited use of trees for fence posts and firewood for domestic purposes, general management purposes, weed control or replanting to increase diversity of native species.

- Not allow the removal of any bush rock.

- Plant a majority of native and preferably endemic vegetation

- Allow access to site for reasonable demonstration purposes with at least one demonstration/field days per annum and for study purposes as required.

- Take all reasonable steps to control and suppress bushfires

d) Nursery Support
I commit to participate in at least one nursery planting and one nursery maintenance event each year and in the financial year prior to receiving funding or plants.

e) Funding and Materials
i. The Bowning-Bookham Districts Landcare Group will, within the funding agreement and funds available for the Habitat Hops from Burrinjuck to Bango project and the capacity of the Group’s nursery, provide the Landholder with some or all of:

- tubestock for planting in the tree plots (free to active members who help in the nursery, $1 each for other members, $2 each for non-members),

- seed for direct seeding (vermiculite and seeder are landholders’ responsibility), and

- $6 per metre of funding for fencing completed.

ii. To claim fencing funding the I will supply a Property Information Plan, before and after photos of site after fencing is completed, monitoring information (refer Section HH4), have agreed to and fulfilled the commitments described here, and provide bank account details for direct payment of funds.

f) Site Visit/ Demonstration Day

Agree to at least one visit from a representative of YAN to my planting area at a mutually convenient time.

Agree to host at least one on site visit of the Bowning Bookham Landcare Group at a mutally convenient time.

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Which Project(s) are you participating in? (select all that apply)

No particular project, but I have 'climate ready' plants grown in either the Yass, Murrumbateman or Bowning Bookham Nurseries (No Additional Project Terms)Habitat Hops - Bowning Bookham Landcare Only (Habitat Hops Project Terms)
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By submitting this agreement to the Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups (YAN), I agree to the above measures.

If I am involved with the Habitat Hops Project, I also agree to the additional Monitoring Guidelines and Project Terms.
Thanks for being a Landcarer!
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