Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00346:reg:400:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00346
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 400 (pt 6/12)
Character Range: 342442–349511

greatest when a biomass reduction event had occurred recently, which means there is a greater percentage of bare soil, less leaf litter and weeds. The ploughed forb field at Quandong had the most optimal conditions for seedlings establishment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   * Further investigation into the effects of disturbance could be done, especially into the effects of grazing.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                * Timings and frequency of biomass reduction events are the issues confronting grassland managers in their planning and daily operations. There is no clear answer from this research but if there is no bare ground in a grassland, a burn is required as soon as possible. Unfortunately conducting a burn in the currently climate is difficult and must be pre-planned often up to a year in advance.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                * Grassland managers should schedule burns at least biannually and incorporate a spring burn in at least one in every three to promote seed production and seedling survival in their Spiny Rice-flower population.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Glenelg Hopkins CMA received funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program in 2012–2013 (GHCMA 2018) to deliver a 5-year Victorian Volcanic Plains Recovery Project aimed at protecting 3 critically endangered Ecological Communities which occur on the Victorian Volcanic Plain Bioregion, and some equally endangered plants and animals, including the button wrinklewort, Spiny Rice-flower and eastern barred bandicoot. Glenelg Hopkins CMA provided the bulk funding for Pimelea planting day at Skipton Common (2017), the activity was supported by Pimelea Conservation Trust, Ballarat Environment Network, Victoria University, Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment, Fields Naturalists' Club Ballarat, CFA-Snake Valley Brigade, Skipton Primary School and Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Ballarat Environment Network contractors, DEECA staff volunteers and La Trobe University students (John Morgan lab) undertook before, during and after-burn monitoring.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Biosis assessed potential sites for Spiny Rice-flower offset at Warrambeen.
4.2         Control threats from pest plants, animals, and predators by preventing access, rerouting tracks, application of herbicide, hand removal of weeds, fencing sites and caging plants.                                                                                   * Measurable seedling recruitment/vegetative regeneration and a measurable reduction in plant mortality at Laverton RAAF Grassland Reserve, Mt Mercer–Shelford Road: Durham Ox–Rayburn Road, 8 km WNW of Tandarra, Chatsworth Road, Derinallum, Farm South of Echuca Sewerage Farm, Farm in Patho, adjoining Murray Valley Highway, Wingeel Rail Siding and Mitiamo Rail Siding sites.      * Only a handful of management plans have been developed for various sites containing Spiny Rice-flower populations, however none have been critically assessed on their effectiveness in conserving Spiny Rice-flower and there is great variation between them. However, the work done by Melbourne Water at Lake Borrie is a great example of an effective management plan. Through sustained and informed management, including rabbit and weed control and improved ecological burning, Spiny Rice-flower numbers