Gully Maintenance, Monitoring — technical report | Page 3

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement Contents i ii
Executive summary
1
Introduction
3
Background
3
The initial treatment project
3
This monitoring and maintenance project
3
Site characteristics
4
Location
4
Soils and land type
4
Rainfall
5
Fire impacts
6
Site clusters— scale, soil and landscape position
6
Treatments at large-scale sites
9
Treatments at small-scale sites
10
Methods
12
Monitoring methods
12
Maintenance methods
13
Results
13
Stability of sites overview
13
Large-scale sites
20
Grazing land management
20
Maintenance
20
Stability achieved
21
Small-scale sites
27
Grazing land management
27
Maintenance
27
Stability achieved in catchments
30
Stability achieved in gullies
33
Stability and grazing land management
36
Results- Maintenance costs and cost effectiveness
37
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