Regional NRM Strategy

(Click here to download the strategy documents)

What is the strategy?
Managing Tasmania’s natural resources is nothing new. It’s been practised under one name or another for years, and indeed for thousands of years before European settlement.
Over the past decade the majority of local governments have been developing a plan for managing natural resources in their area. There are various other strategies as well: coastal management strategies, weed management, salinity management and so on.
The intention of the NRM North Natural Resource Management Strategy is tie together all of these other strategies, and pick up any other important bits that haven’t yet been covered.
Simply put, it is an overarching plan for managing all of the natural resources of the Northern Tasmanian region. It’s also the framework on which investment in NRM activities in the region will be based, e.g. funding will be directed towards achieving what’s in the strategy.

What’s in the strategy?
In short, the strategy is a series of statements about what we want for our natural resources, what we’re going to do to get there, and how we’re going to measure our progress along the way.

What we want:
Aspirational Targets describe the long-term goals for our natural resources – the air, soil, water, rivers, forests, oceans, and so on: they express what we want in the future, eg clean air; rivers we can drink from; productive land; and so on.

What we’re going to do about it:
Management Actions describe the actions we’re going to undertake to achieve those goals.

How we’re going to know we’ve achieved it:
Resource Condition Targets describe the measurements we’ll use to monitor our progress towards achieving our goals. They express how we’re going to measure our progress, e.g. they are specific and measurable targets that indicate whether we’ve achieve our aspirational target.

Regional Weed Management Strategy & Weed Action Plan

As a complement to the Northern NRM Strategy, a wide range of committed organisations in the Northern Region have financed and developed a Northern Regional Weed Management Strategy.

Priorities highlighted in the Strategy will be addressed primarily through an IP that identifies high priority investment opportunities designed to achieve our longer-term targets (10-20yr Resource Condition Targets), and shorter-term targets (1-5yr Management Action Targets) listed in the Strategy. This weed strategy identifies strategic actions and resource sharing efficiencies for the ongoing effective management of introduced feral plant species in our region.

A Weed Action Plan was subsequently developed in 2006 as a partner document to the strategy. The action plan gives a simple but precise outline of the current programs and future actions required in the Northern NRM region of Tasmania to manage the existing and potential weed issues.

Click here for the Weed Management Strategy

Click here for the Weed Action Plan

Regional Investment Proposal (IP)

Priorities highlighted in the Strategy will be addressed primarily through an IP that identifies high priority investment opportunities designed to achieve our longer-term targets (10-20yr Resource Condition Targets), and shorter-term targets (1-5yr Management Action Targets) listed in the Strategy.

It will set out the business case for resource investment in NRM within Northern Tasmania, in respect to effort, materials and funding from a variety of potential investors including government, industry, research organisations and the community.
The IP will operate relative to a 3–5 year timeframe. Partnerships are a key to implementing the strategy and IP and this will require a substantial commitment of time, funds and effort by a wide range of stakeholders and investors which may include:

• The Tasmanian and Australian Governments, via the Natural Heritage Trust 2, the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) and other funding programs (eg. National Landcare Program and Regional Partnerships)
• Private landowners and primary producers
• Local Government support
• Industry bodies and associated research and development organisations
• Local businesses, and the wider community.

If you would like to find out more check out the Proposal.

If you would like to fund an activity check out our Funding Opportunities.