The workshop material covers environmental laws and agreements, regional issues and requirements, and key environmental effects and their management. There are also modules addressing pre-harvest environmental planning and monitoring with checklists for both phases of an operation. Finally, the appropriate environmental education training units contained within the National Certificate of Forestry are listed. The workshop information was designed and used in conjunction with field visits to pre-harvest and harvested sites. Communication of best management practices for eroding hill country A scoping exercise has been completed to assist in further developing best management practice tools and approaches appropriate to the North Island hill country, and in particular the communication needs for sustainable land management development.
Information needs to be holistic including incorporation of impacts on production.
These points and other information will be used in developing activities to address in the hill 6. Accordingly, BMP funding is being used for selected components of some projects to facilitate the development of sustainable land management. New initiatives are planned in the North Island hill country in Gisborne, Wanganui and the King Country. The first draft of a guide for land managers and advisers on better riparian management practices is expected this month. Further information can be obtained from Kirsty Woods from the Ministry for the Environment in Wellington.