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 the Living in the Lockyer Property Management Planning Kit in 2001 as an accompanying knowledge resource to the Lockyer Catchment Centre guidebook Living in the Lockyer – A Landholders Guide to Land, Water, Wildlife and Vegetation Management in the Lockyer Catchment and Surrounds.
The Land Use Planning Handbook for the Lockyer Catchment, which I prepared in 2001 from stakeholder feedback on an earlier document, describes the ‘land systems’ planning approach used in NRM planning in the Lockyer Catchment of south-east Queensland.
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.
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.