STUARTS POINT QUESTIONS

1. Stuarts point stabilisation area is a small coastal village located on the mid north coast of NSW. The dune are is 5 kilometres long with a width of 200-400 metres.

2. 1970- The scheme started
    1893- A large flood caused the macleay river to break through the sand barrier at        southwest rocks.
    1965- Native plant seedlings were provided aswell as planting advice.
    1970- Re vegetation started planting into the dunes in an effort to stabillise them.

3. The role of the community was to conserve the barrier and look after the soil. They needed to check up with associations to get appropiate advice.

4. The sand barrier is important to the local community of Stuarts point because they need the barrier to protect house and other man man features from sea water rising.

5.  Plants go from small to larger as you get further away from the sea in the order of Primary species, Secondary species and Tertiary Species. Incipient dune protects the fore dune which together protect the Hind dune where non salt surviving plants can grow.

6. The vegetation is the sand dunes are there to support the sand dune and give it structure so it doesnt just bolow away in the wind. Sand dune has a pair but of roots within it.

7.  Cattle grazing was very bad for the dunes as it would just continue to destroy the sand drift control.

8. If the grazing continued then the incipent dune would be destroyed which will lead to the dissapearance of the rest of the dune resulting in huge losses of habitat for animals and loss of the dune.

9.  The groups involved are the Soil Conservation service of NSW, the Macleay Shire Council, The department of public works, The Department of Lands.

10.  First- The used a tractor to build a 1.8 metre foredune.
      Second- Planting trees along the riverbank for more land support.
      Third- Plant fast growing species.
12. The water just destoryed the entire area.
13. a. The sand dunes were succesfully restabilised and created.
      b. The Macleay River was protected now nad was very succesful.
      c. Now the area was stable and benefitting groups had no problems.