In 2003-04, I coordinated the Upper Ma Ma Creek Rainforest Restoration Project, which brought together scientific knowledge and local knowledge to carry out weed control trials to assist the conservation of endangered rainforest remnants in the Lockyer Valley in south-east Queensland.
I initiated and developed the Biodiversity Recovery Plan for Gatton and Laidley Shires, South-East Queensland 2003-2008, drawing on a wide range of scientific and local knowledge from a multi-stakeholder recovery team. The Biodiversity Recovery Plan takes a multi-species and ecosystem recovery planning approach, and is linked to local government planning.
I prepared a Land and Environmental Management Plan (LEMP) in 2002 for the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (S.S.A.A.) Lockyer Branch Inc., to support their development application for a Shooting Range in Gatton Shire.
In 2001-02, I coordinated the Holistic Natural Resource Management of Crow’s Nest Shire project (‘Project Green Nest’), which was acclaimed for its innovative incentive-based strategies and the way in which it engaged the knowledge of the community.
I prepared the comprehensive Gatton Shire Biodiversity Strategy in 2000, drawing on the recommendations of the National R&D Program on Rehabilitation, Management and Conservation of Remnant Vegetation to advance innovative win-win solutions to benefit both biodiversity and the landholders and community of Gatton Shire.
Between 1995 and 2000, I assisted Lockyer Valley landholders to explore and develop nature-based tourism and ecotourism opportunities, as an alternative or supplementary income to traditional farming.
I led the coordination of the Sustainable Management of the Helidon Hills project in 1998-99. The project was acclaimed for the way in which it engaged the multiple knowledges of the community and other stakeholders in planning for the complex land use and management issues faced by one of the largest remaining areas of mostly continuous bushland in south-east Queensland.
I initiated, wrote, compiled, and published the first three issues of South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery News in 1997-98 to provide updates on the initiation of one of Australia’s first multi-species recovery planning projects, the South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Project.
In 1998, I initiated the Glen Rock Green Corps Project, which engaged unemployed young people to carry out nature conservation work and visitor facility construction at the Glen Rock Regional Park in the southern Lockyer Valley.
I established the Teddington Weir Vineforest Project in 1997, as a demonstration site for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South-East Queensland Vineforests Project.