Bringing the Bush Back to Western Sydney

Best Practice Guidelines for Bush Regeneration on the Cumberland Plain: Download Document

Bushcare Volunteer Training and Professional Support materials – VCN Manual 2012 and ‘Bushcare Booster’ Training Modules

Volunteer Co-ordinators Network Manual

This Manual supersedes the 2005 2nd edition. Environmental volunteer programs in Australia have expanded and developed and the 2012 third edition includes 39 new case studies that show the diversity of environmental volunteer programs in urban and rural areas throughout Australia.
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Bushcare Booster Modules

Bushcare Booster Module 1:
Working safely and weed control techniques – Participant’s workbook.
Working safely and weed control techniques – Facilitator’s Notes.

Bushcare Booster Module 2:
Bushcare and the Big Picture – Participant’s workbook.
Bushcare and the Big Picture – Facilitator’s Notes.

Bushcare Booster Module 3:
The “Birds and the Bees” of Bushcare – Participant’s workbook.
The “Birds and the Bees” of Bushcare – Facilitator’s Notes.

Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest

The booklet ‘Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest:A guide to identifying and protecting the nationally threatened ecological community’ can be downloaded from www.environment.gov.au/epbc/publications/cumberland-plain-shale-woodlands.html

Guidelines for monitoring weed control work

Download the Guidelines for monitoring weed control work

Phytophthora Management

Extensive information on Phytophthora and a variety of resources can be found at www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/plant_info/pests_diseases/phytophthora_dieback