Planting trees is only the first step toward establishing new areas of native forest. Monitoring early survival and growth of your plantings will provide you with valuable insights into what’s working or not. It will help you schedule in timely weed and pest animal control and enable you to learn from any failures.
This online tool is for short-term monitoring of planted natives, and has been jointly development by Tāne’s Tree Trust (TTT) and Trees That Count (TTC) with support from project partners the Tasman Environmental Trust, Auckland Council, Pamu Farms and The Tindall Foundation.
It focuses on assessing early survival and growth of planted natives to be undertaken by planters including community groups, iwi, landowners, councils, consultants, environmental NGOs, etc. This includes:
- Registering as a user to gain access to the Tāne’s Tree Trust Monitoring Tool for planted natives.
- Recording site and planting information
- Taking a photographic record of the planting site
- Undertaking regular inspections
- Choosing from a selection of two methods for assessing early survival and growth of planted natives:
- A subjective basic method for individual planters, or
- A quantitative plot-based method for large planting organisations,
- Online user-friendly data entry, and
- Ability for users to undertake automated data processing and analysis, and generation of results in graphical and tabular form.