New South Wales Projects and Sites
Nungatta Station Land Management Program
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Landscape Architect: Material Landscape Architecture
Location: South East New South Wales
Summary
Nungatta is a 5,000 ha cattle station that has been operating as such for 150 years. The decline in the agricultural economy has seen a marked change in the financial resources available for land management from on-farm income and, as a result has seen the degradation of the natural resources of Nungatta.
Nungatta’s non-agricultural natural resources are extraordinary, containing significant endangered plant communities and fauna and a geographically unique space surrounded by natural forest. The property is upstream from one of the most untouched National Park networks in SE Australia. Yet none of these qualities had been considered as important by the owner whose principal aim was to maximize cattle production.
Material Landscape Architecture was engaged to review Nungatta’s agricultural issues, develop goals and a strategy for tackling them. Material developed a master plan that has seen implementation of 600 ha of eucalyptus plantation, control of 2,200 ha of weeds and the protection of 118 ha of Endangered Ecological Communities.
Dynamic capacity building is a fundamental to the projects success, the collaborating allowed for an approach that was beyond the agricultural realm, recognizing the value of the property was not based on its cattle carrying capacity.
BUDGET: $ 2 million
CLIENT: Nungatta Pty Ltd
COLLABORATIONS:
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Bombala, Franz Peters and Rachel Butterworth
Bega Valley Shire Council Native Vegetation Recovery Officer, Jock Waugh
Weeds Inspector, Greg Madden
South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd, Eden NSW Deane Goodyer, Garry Hunter
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2010
