A decade of restoring a temperate woodland: Lessons learned and future directions (original) (raw)

2021, Ecological Management & Restoration

contributed equally to the writing of this paper. We would like to thank the editorial team (David Freudenberger, Julianne O'Reilly Wapstra and Ted Lefroy, chaired by Neil Davidson) who oversaw the reviews for the 15 papers in this special issue of Ecological management and Restoration, and Elisa Raulings from Greening Australia who reviewed all papers and provided valuable advice to authors. We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners and Elders, past, present and emerging of the North Midlands and Oyster Bay nations of lutrawita/Tasmania on whose land we conducted this restoration project. Early project support was provided by a Tasmanian State Government grant to offset government carbon emissions (offered to Greening Australia by then Premier Jim Bacon). Subsequently restoration programs were supported by the Australian Federal Government (Biodiversity Fund, 20 Million Trees), corporate investment in carbon offset (Pennicott Wilderness Journeys), substantial philanthropic support from the Ian Potter Foundation and many small donations. We would like to thank the John Roberts Charitable Trust for support to publish this Special Issue and conduct the education program together with Inspire Australia and the Disney Foundation. Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants (LP0991026, LP120200380 and LP120200380) held in partnership with Greening Australia supported research and monitoring, as did CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems agroforestry project 'Lifting the Farm Gate'. The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Forest Value (IC150100004) provided later support for trial establishment, maintenance, data collection and preparation of the current article. We would like to thank partners and stakeholders the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, Bush Heritage Australia, The Tasmanian State Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and the Environment, NRM North, and the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association for their support. And a big thanks the many Midlands land owners who gave us permission to work on their properties and took part in, and contributed to, the restoration project. We acknowledge the considerable contributions to the project by Jonathan Duddles, Sebastian Burgess and Jimmy Collinson, former employees of Greening Australia. We also thank the many contractors and This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved volunteers who worked on preparing field sites as well as those involved in growing plants and planting 1800ha of native revegetation.