SEQ Natural Resource Strategy

Natural Resource Management Strategy for South East Queensland

Have Your Say

This booklet of Feedback Forms accompanies the Natural Resource Management Strategy Discussion Paper. The Forms summarise the key regional issues which have been identified so far and the Discussion Paper gives brief background information about those issues.

The issues have been presented under the following themes:

Understanding and involvement

Caring for biodiversity

Caring for our water resource

Caring for our land

Caring for our coast and seas

Sustainable natural resource management

How to have your say:

The next step is to gather your input to the Strategy. We are particularly interested in issues that you are aware of that have not been covered in the Discussion Paper.

Read through the issues listed on the Feedback Forms; if you want to know more about the issues, go to the Discussion Paper and read some background information.

On the Feedback Forms overleaf, under the six column headings, please fill in any information you would like to add. Some information has been filled in; please add your thoughts. Directions are given below: ß ß ß Ë Ë

How to meet our needs

Problems & Issues

Main areas where problems occur

What is being done now?

What else needs to be done?

How urgent?

Ë Write in additional issues that have not been covered.

Ë Jot down what other problems are occurring in your region.

Ë List the locations where these problems are occurring.

Ë Record what actions are being taken to deal with the issue. Some examples have been given.

Ë Add other important actions which are needed to deal with the problems and issues.

Ë Very High (VH)

High (H) or Moderate (M)

Please return Feedback Forms by 30 September to:

Mary-Jane Weld

Department of Natural Resources

PO Box 864

IPSWICH Q 4305

Like to talk to us??

Four regional workshops will be held in Nambour, Esk, Nerang and Brisbane in September. An enclosed flyer gives workshop details.

Understanding and involvement We need a well-informed and motivated community which actively promotes and practices sustainable natural resource management
1. How to meet our needs	2. Issues/problems/ opportunities	3. Main areas where issues occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?
Raise community awareness of nature conservation and resource management issues		Gold Coast City
Promote action learning	community nature conservation activities	across the region	Land for Wildlife Landcare groups activities
Provide water resource information	Research coordination Dissemination of information
Provide sustainable land management information
Facilitate learning opportunities within formal and informal education systems
Develop cultural awareness programs

Caring for our biodiversity We need to manage and protect native plant and animal communities to ensure their survival and maintain biodiversity.
1. How to meet our needs	2. Problems & Issues	3. Main areas where problems occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?
Protect significant remnant vegetation	Clearing for urban expansion Clearing for agriculture
Protect full range of naturally occuring species and ecosystems, particularly those which are threatened
Protect and restore vegetation corridors and habitat links
Protect and restore riparian vegetation	clearing in riparian zone weed invasion
Fire management	Lack of knowledge of new landholders Poor implementation of fire management plans
Weed management	ground disturbance which allows weed invasion transport of weed species in waterways		SEQ Environmental Weeds Strategy (in prep; DNR)

Caring for our water resources We need an adequate, sustainable supply of clean water to maintain ecological systems and support human needs.
1. How to meet our needs	2. Problems & Issues	3. Main areas where problems occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?
Protect/improve/ restore water quality	Erosion and sedimentation Stormwater runoff - urban and rural Wastewater		Water quality monitoring - Waterwatch
Water use to match sustainable supply and environmental flows	Overallocation of groundwater resources reduced flow levels impacting on aquatic ecosystems water storage structures water producers	Lockyer Valley	Water re-use study
Flood management	Development in catchment causing increased runoff Development in floodplain Backwater flooding Value of flooding		Flood management plans

Caring for our land We need our land to provide for the needs of all human and non-human residents of the region and to be kept in a healthy condition.
1. How to meet our needs	2. Problems & Issues	3. Main areas where problems occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?
Prevent soil erosion	overclearing overstocking on grazing lands poor cultivation/cropping management poor management of construction/development sites		Industry Codes of Practice Farm forestry programs
Improve health of riparian zone	removal of streambank vegetation streambed modification instream structures poor quality of runoff uncontrolled stock access		Riverine Strategies for SEQ (DNR)
Maintain soil health	loss of fertility degradation of soil structure
Sustainable management of intensive agricultural industries	inadequate waste disposal techniques concentration of activities causing soil degradation poor management of runoff		Industry Codes of Practice
Prevent salinity	tree clearing irrigation with poor quality water; poor irrigation design		Saltwatch Program (DNR)
Improve waste disposal methods - land fill and wastewater	poorly sited and managed landfills sewage treatment and disposal siting and operation of septic tanks
Control of feral and problem animals
Maintain natural processes
Floodplain management

Caring for our coast and seas We need to maintain and protect our coastal and marine ecosystems.
1. How to meet our needs	2. Problems & Issues	3. Main areas where problems occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?
Marine species and ecosystem protection	Sand replenishment
Sustainably manage Acid Sulfate Soils	Urban development and canal construction Agricultural activities		Mapping of extent and risk level of ASS (DNR)
Fisheries resource sharing and management	management of impacts to protect ecosystems, eg trawling on shallow parts of the Bay
Sensitive coastal and foreshore development	Inappropriate planning controls

Sustainable natural resource management We need to carefully manage the region’s natural resources to meet ecological, economic and social needs.
1. How to meet our needs	2. Problems & Issues	3. Main areas where problems occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?
Sound management of sand and gravel extraction & supply	allocation of resource
Protect good quality agricultural land	Encroachment of rural residential development	Lockyer Valley	State Planning Policy 1/92: Development & Conservation of Agricultural Land
Financing for sustainability	farm profitabiltiy land valuations market pressures loss of productivity through resource quality decline
Improve air quality	increasing use of motor vehicles industrial pollution burning of vegetation odour from intensive farm practices greenhouse gases
Coordinate and integrate regional, local and catchment planning activities
Develop measurements for sustainability

Other issues of concern

1. How to meet our needs	2. Problems & Issues	3. Main areas where problems occur	4. What is being done now?	5. What else needs to be done?	6. How urgent?

What next?

Now that you have added your comments to the Feedback Forms, please:

Return the forms by 30 September to:

Mary-Jane Weld

Coordinator, Natural Resource Management Strategy for SEQ

Department of Natural Resources

PO Box 864

IPSWICH Q 4305

Fax: (07) 3884 5322

Attend one of the following regional workshops (bring your completed Feedback Forms, if convenient):

Brisbane

Esk

Nambour

Nerang

Details of the workshops are given on the enclosed flyer.

The information gathered from these Feedback Forms is confidential and respondents will not be identified in any material produced for the Strategy. However, if you would like to provide us with contact details, please fill in the space below.

Name:
Address:


Phone:
Email:

Please send me:	q	Interim Draft Strategy in October 1998	q	Draft Strategy in February 1999

For more information, or to register for a workshop, please contact:

Mary-Jane Weld

Phone: (07) 3884 5327

Mobile: 0412 585 614

Email: mary-jane.weld@dnr.qld.gov.au

Thank you for contributing to the development of the

Natural Resource Management Strategy for South East Queensland