Trees For Rehabilitation (Landcare Reafforestation) BHT205

A course designed for people working or wishing to work with environmental rehabilitation and contaminated sites recovery. This course develops an understanding of environmental systems and the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes. You learn about seed collection, storage and germination, propagation, plant selection, establishment techniques, controlling pest & disease after planting.

A course designed for people working or wishing to work with environmental rehabilitation and contaminated sites recovery. Learn the best techniques for plant selection and establishment, seed collection, storage and germination and post-establishment management and control.

Course Structure There are ten lessons are as follows:

1. Approaches To Land Rehabilitation
2. Ecology Of Soils And Plant Health
3. Introduction To Seed Propagation Techniques
4. Propagation And Nursery Stock.
5. Dealing With Chemical Problems
6. Physical Plant Effects On Degraded Sites
7. Plant Establishment Programs
8. Hostile Environments
9. Plant Establishment Care
10. Rehabilitating Degraded Sites

What the Course covers On successful completion of the course you should be able to do the following:

• Compare different approaches to land rehabilitation, to determine strengths and weaknesses of alternative options on a site to be rehabilitated.
• Determine techniques to maximise plant development in land rehabilitation situations.
• Explain the different ways of producing seedling trees for land rehabilitation purposes.
• Determine appropriate plant establishment programs.
• Develop procedures to care for plants, during establishment in an hostile environment.
• Manage the rehabilitation of degraded soil.
• Explain the effect of plants on improving a degraded site, both physically and chemically.

What the Course covers Here are just some of the things you mayl be doing:

• Determine ten different examples of land degradation on different sites.
• Explain different reasons for land requiring rehabilitation, including:
  
  • Salination
  • Erosion
  • Mining
  • Grazing
  • Vegetation harvesting
  • Pests
  • Reduction of biodiversity
  • Soil contamination
  • Urbanisation.
• Compare the effectiveness of different policy approaches to land rehabilitation by different agencies and organisation, including:
  
  • Different levels of government
  • Mining companies
  • Developers
  • Conservation groups (i.e. tree planting bodies, landcare groups).
• Develop a risk analysis for a specified site to be rehabilitated, by determining a variety of plant health problems which may impact on the success of plant establishment.
• Analyse the failure of plants to grow successfully on a visited land rehabilitation site.
• Develop a procedure to enhance the success rate of land rehabilitation plantings on a degraded site visited by you.
• Describe the use of mulches, to maximise plant condition in a specified land rehabilitation tree planting project.
• Explain different processes of establishing seedlings on land rehabilitation in:
• • tubestock nursery production
  • direct seeding
  • pre-germinated bare rooted seedlings.
• Determine factors which affect the viability of establishing five different species of plant seedlings, from five different plant families; on a specific degraded site.
• Compare the benefits of acquiring plants for a project by buying tubestock, with propagating and growing on, or close to, the planting site, with reference to:
  
  • costs
  • plant quality
  • local suitability
  • management.
• Prepare production schedules for a plant species, using di