These guidelines are aimed at a more technical audience and provide detailed information about the science underpinning recommended best practice in river and riparian management. They have become central reference documents for most catchment management organisations in Australia, as well as providing the most up to date river and riparian science for researchers working in the area. The River and Riparian Management Technical Guideline Updates provides the most up to date scientific information about particular topics as new research findings come to light.
Principles for Riparian Lands Management
Best-practice knowledge for riparian lands
Synthesising the results of the National Riparian Lands R&D Program, and including external and overseas research, Principles is an essential guide to the science of riparian lands management. Written with a national scope, this publication helps groups and landholders to design and implement best-practice riparian management.
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Design guideline for the reintroduction of wood into Australian streams
This new guideline by Dr Andrew Brooks, provides some step by step design principles for reintroducing wood into different types of Australian rivers. Information about the research projects that have been undertaken in Australia are provided, with plenty of case study examples, practical tips, diagrams and photographs clearly explaining the different strategies available for using wood to restore rivers.
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Stock and Waterways: A Managers Guide
This Guide is designed to help you recognize your riparian land and its multiple values; identify how stock access and grazing in and around riparian land can be improved; and develop a strategy to manage your riparian land productively and sustainability. Full of practical suggestions, diagrams and case studies, this Guide is a must for landholders and anyone working with graziers. Case studies are drawn from across Australia to ensure that there is a story that relates to your part of the world.
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Riparian Land Management Technical Guideline Updates
Number 8 - The watershed Torbay experience: Community, change, collaboration and celebration
Louise Duxbury, Naomi Arrowsmith, Siwan Lovett
This Technical Guideline presents reflections from key participants - government agencies, researchers, representatives from different sectors of the local community, and the staff working on Watershed Torbay. This information will demonstrate how the Watershed Torbay approach has substantially equipped the community to embark on an ambitious restoration project, as well as providing valuable learnings for others involved in natural resources management about how to successfully engage local communities.
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Number 7 - Tropical Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition for use in Tropical Savannas
Ian Dixon, Michael Douglas, John Dowe and Damien Burrows
The Tropical Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition (TRARC) is a visual assessment of the riparian zone using simple indicators of condition. It is designed to be user-friendly for the non-specialist and is best suited to savanna streams with a well defined channel and a distinct riparian zone. This guideline provides step by step instructions for undertaking a TRARC assessment.
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Number 6 - Controlling willows along Australian rivers
Lizzie Pope, Ian Rutherfurd, Phil Price and Siwan Lovett
Willows (Salix spp. and hybrids) are a serious weed threat to rivers, riparian areas and wetlands throughout south-eastern Australia, and are continuing to spread. Willows can cause a range of deleterious morphological and ecological changes to rivers and aquatic ecosystems. Effective methods are available for control and removal of willows, but using these methods requires careful planning and implementation, as well as follow-up maintenance. This guidline summarises some of the existing information about willows and their management, and provides links to other more detailed sources of knowledge.
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Number 5 - Managing high in-stream temperatures using riparian vegetation
Davies, P., Cook, B., Rutherford, K. & Walshe, T. 2004
A new River and Riparian Management Technical Guideline is now available on the impact of high in-stream temperatures on aquatic organisms, and the options available to river managers trying to restore aquatic habitat using riparian vegetation. The Update provides information about the thermal tolerance of key aquatic species and provides guidelines for river managers about how to use riparian vegetation to control water temperature.
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Number 4 - Development and application of a method for the rapid appraisal of riparian condition
Amy Jansen, Alistar Robertson, Leigh Thompson and Andrea Wilson
The extensive degradation of riparian lands in Australia has led to the development of a rapid method of riparian condition to underpin strategies for improved management. The Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition (RARC) Index was developed by Amy Jansen, Alistar Robertson, Leigh Thompson and Andrea Wilson from Charles Sturt University, and is applicable for southern riparian systems. It enables people to assess the ecological condition of riparian habitats using indicators that reflect functional aspects of the physical, chemical and landscape features of the riparian zone. The project is paired with a team from James Cook University who are in the process of developing a RARC for tropical systems, thereby enabling people from across Australia to have an index to suit their region.
Download or order» Development and application of a method for the rapid appraisal of riparian conditionOn the web at Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition
Number 3 - 'Managing wood in streams'
Peter Cottingham, Stuart Bunn, Phil Price and Siwan Lovett (eds)
Experts in the ecological, geomorphic and hydrologic role of wood in streams have written this new Technical Guideline Update that brings up to date information about managing wood in streams. The Technical Guideline Update covers the science behind the importance of retaining wood in streams, as well as providing some key steps to follow when reinstating wood into rivers.
Available from CanPrint, and on the web: Click here for PDF version Techupdate 3 (on LWA site)
Number 2 - 'Managing nutrients in floodplain wetlands and shallow lakes'
Paul Bailey,Paul Boon and Kay Morris,Monash University and Victorian University of Technology
This new technical guideline provides scientific information on the impact of high nutrient loads to shallow lakes and wetlands, in particular the effect on water plants and algal growth, and what managers can do to maintain healthy shallow lakes and wetlands.
Available from CanPrint, and on the web: Click here for PDF version Techupdate 2 (on LWA site)
Number 1 - 'Designing filter strips to trap sediment and attached nutrient'
Prosser, I. & Karssies, L. 2001
This is the first in a new series designed to provide updates on research findings. Update 1 focuses on how we can use riparian filter strips to protect streams and riparian lands from high sediment and attached nutrient loss from hillslopes. These Updates are aimed at catchment managers and those working with landholders to better manage river and riparian environments.
Available from CanPrint, and on the web: Click here for PDF version Techupdate 1 (on LWA site)
Guidelines for Protecting Australian Waterways
J Bennett et al 2002
These Guidelines are developed for governments, developers, consultants and the community on protection and management of Australian waterways and floodplains. They provide a much needed framework for defining significant waterways as a basis for protection, as well as a systematic approach to conservation management. They provide practical tools and techniques for identifying and assessing the capacity of land and water systems to sustain development.
Available in hard copy from CanPrint or on the web Guidelines for Protecting Australian Waterways (on LWA site)
Riparian Land Management Technical Guidelines Volumes One and Two
Volume One: Principles of Sound Management
Volume Two: On-ground Management Tools and Techniques
Lovett, S. & Price, P. (eds) 1999 ISBN: 0 642 26775 8
Australia's top scientists have come together to produce a two volume set that is based upon the findings of five years of research undertaken through LWA's National Riparian Lands Program. Volume One provides information about the physical and ecological processes characteristic of riparian lands, with Volume Two providing seven guidelines covering topics that range from the control of nuisance aquatic plants to managing riparian land for terrestrial wildlife.
Available in hard copy from CanPrint. and on the web at Riparian Land Management Technical Guidelines. Volume One & Two.
A Rehabilitation Manual for Australian Streams
Volume One: Concepts and Planning
Volume Two: Rehabilitation Tools
Rutherfurd, I., Jerie, K. and Marsh, N. 2000 Draft for Evaluation
This manual is designed to help those professional managers who are accepting the challenge of rehabilitating the physical and biological condition of Australian streams. The manual is based on an evolving set of ideas and contains gaps in our knowledge that need to be filled. It is hoped that the manual will grow and mature along with the infant stream rehabilitation industry. So feedback is always welcome.
Available from CanPrint and on the web at A Rehabilitation Manual for Australian Streams. Volume One & Two.
A Process for Rehabilitating Australian Streams CD Rom
This CD-ROM is an interactive version of A Rehabilitation Manual for Australian Streams by Rutherfurd, Jerie and Marsh. It has been developed to assist anyone involved in stream rehabilitation and, whilst it does not cover every aspect of stream management, it does provide a dynamic and innovative way of working through the planning, implementation and evaluation processes that are important to follow when undertaking stream rehabilitation. For more information click the button below.
Available from CanPrint.
River Restoration Framework
Koehn, JD., Brierley, G.J., Cant, B.L., and Lucas, A.M. 2001
The River Resoration Framework provides a simple step-bystep process through which the complex task of river restoration can be undertaken across Australia.
Available from CanPrint and on the web at River Restoration Framework.
Principles and Tools for Protecting Australian Rivers
Phillips, N., Bennett, J., and Moulton, D. 2001
This report identifies the principles associated with the protection of riverine ecological values, and methods for assessing those values. The report is aimed at planners and policy makers, river managers, community groups and individuals. It addresses conceptual frameworks for river protection and is not intended as a prescriptive document.
Available from CanPrint and on the web at Principles and Tools for Protecting Australian Rivers.
Stream Stabilisation for Rehabilitation in North-East Queensland
Kapitzke, I. et al 1998 ISBN: 0 642 267189
This manual identifies some of the primary problems and causes of river degradation as well as treatments and management techniques. It recognises that the sustainable use of streams depends on a range of factors such as geology, hydrology, climate, ecology, sociology, culture and economics.
Available from CanPrint.
