Pastoral lease recovery plan

When significant land condition issues are identified on a pastoral property, the Pastoral Land Board may request the lessee to:

• prepare and submit a voluntary pastoral lease recovery plan
• detail any actions to taken to address these issues.

Role of a pastoral lessee

Pastoral lessees have a duty to:

• adopt sound management practices
• address any land condition issues that may arise.

If the land condition on your station has been identified as declining,  you should try to work with the board to resolve it.

Recovery plan template

The board has released a recovery plan template which provides guidance to:

• lessees
• consultants.

Use the template to determine the expected scope and content of your recovery plan.

Get the pastoral lease recovery plan template DOCX (725.6 KB).

What the template includes

• Context for why the plan is required, for example:
  • recent property activities
  • trends in land condition
  • current issues/threats - including property maps.
• Objectives.
• Planned management actions, for example:
  • works to address erosion issues
  • feral animal and/or weed control
  • maintaining vegetation cover of desirable species.
• Evaluation and reporting.