Nature Park Management Part 2 Warnborough College

Overview

This Nature Park Management Part 2 course from Warnborough College concentrates more on indigenous plants and using them to create natural, balanced ecosystems. 

Learn to create nature trails, build rockeries and pathways, construct ponds and watercourses, design picnic grounds and animal enclosures, promote a nature park, and lots more.

Course Aims

• Explain how by changing drainage patterns man can damage a natural environment. Consider both urban and rural areas.

• Why would you plant trees several years before planting lower plants in an area you are attempting to return to natural bush?

• How would you go about rehabilitating or establishing an area?

• Present your notes and sketches from a study of natural rock areas.

• Present photos or sketches of rockeries you have inspected.

• In what situations would you be likely to create rockeries in a wildlife enclosure? Why?

• Prepare a list of 30 Australian native plants stating how you would propagate them and why you would use that method in preference to others.

• Prepare a table of at least 20 different recreation activities that you may be familiar with that indicates how compatible these activities are with each other.

• Design a magazine or newspaper advertizement to promote a park you visited.

• Name a nature park which you know of through their marketing, though you have never visited it. What aspect(s) of their marketing have made you aware of this park?

• Describe step by step everything you need to do to grow a eucalypt from seed into a healthy plant over a ten year period.