Projects

Paul Foreman

Paul Foreman is a highly regarded and skilled field botanist and ecologist with over 23 years of experience in land management and nature conservation across a range of sectors and in a range of technical, strategic and management roles throughout Victoria and many other parts of Australia. Paul has an undergraduate degree in Forestry from the University of Melbourne and completed a Botany Masters of Science in Northern Plains Grassland ecology at La Trobe University in 1996.

Swainson-peas

Baseline census of nationally threatened Swainson-peas on the northern plains

Past census for Red and Murray Swainson-pea (Swainsona plagiotropis and S. murrayana) has typically been “quick and dirty” providing only indicative information about populations that is of little use to reserve managers. This project – undertaken in the spring of 2010 – developed and trialled a new technique of intensive census that provides a repeatable ‘baseline’ against which changes in population size and extent can be tracked and interpreted. This work represents part implementation of the Northern Plains Grassland Strategic Directions – a strategic plan outlining the broad framework for the recovery of this recently nationally listed ecological community.