Full Title
Development of Community Engagement in Institutional Monitoring of Environmental Condition.
Contact Person
Trish Bowen
Project Team
Rochelle Petrie, Sylvia Zukowski
Funding Body
North East Catchment Management Authority
Duration
1 December 2005 to 31 August 2006
Outcomes
Community meetings have been held at Eskdale (4 April), Bright (24 April) and Wangaratta (27 April).
Summary
To develop a handbook of methods for monitoring the ecological condition of aquatic and riparian systems for use by landholders and community groups.
The handbook will:
- Provide guidelines for planning a monitoring program
- Assist in selecting what aspects of the environment to measure
- Provide detailed methods for monitoring a range of environmental variables
- Include plans for constructing equipment or suppliers of equipment
- Include data sheets for recording monitoring observations.
This project will develop a new process for engaging community groups in the design and implementation of a monitoring program and then, using feedback from the community, develop a suite of techniques that can be used by the community and natural resource managers to evaluate management activities such as environmental flows. The final output from the project will be a manual that will capture lessons from the process and provide detailed descriptions of the actual techniques developed, their strengths and limitations.
