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Since commencing at nghenvironmental in 1996, Paul has undertaken environmental assessments and prepared EIA reports for a wide range of proposals located in the Far South Coast, South Coast, Kosciuszko and Southern Tablelands regions.
Development proposals have encompassed major water pipelines, communications cables, wind farms, mini-hydro plants, hydro scheme dam works, road construction and maintenance, bridge removal and replacement, sewerage treatment plant upgrades, landslip repair, hazard reduction burning plans and the construction of toilets and visitor facilities near Mt Kosciuszko.
Flora work has included detailed flora surveys in association with the above EIA projects, surveys undertaken for the broadscale mapping of the vegetation of the Far South Coast region and property scale vegetation management planning.
In addition to EIA in sensitive alpine areas, Paul has prepared a development constraints analysis for part of the Perisher Range, and a Human Waste Management Strategy for the Kosciuszko Main Range, and edited land rehabilitation guidelines drafted for the Australian Alps Liaison Committee.
Paul has prepared public interpretation and information documents including a public options paper on toilet facilities for near Mt Kosciuszko, a leaflet guide to rainforests in south east NSW (under a grant from the Australian Plant Society), and a report on the management of flora conservation values in Towamba Cemetery.
Prior to nghenvironmental, Paul worked in the Commonwealth Environment Department. He co-drafted the Commonwealth policy papers on the Regional Forest Agreement process and forest reserve criteria, and wrote numerous Ministerial speeches and parliamentary statements on forest issues. Paul was seconded to work at the Resource Assessment Commission's Coastal Zone Inquiry for one year, looking at management processes in NSW and Queensland, analysing case studies undertaken in all states and developing a series of best-practice criteria for the assessment of coast zone management.
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