In collaboration with Queensland's Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) Taskforces’ Regional Arrangements Planning Team, a Tropical Savannas CRC project looked at improving regional planning integration in savanna regions. Involved in the project teams were Bruce Taylor from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Allan Dale from Queensland's Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

“By working with Natural Resources and Mines and community planners in both the Burdekin and Fitzroy Regional Bodies, we’ve been able to put together some practical advice for regions and the policy makers in Brisbane,” said project manager Bruce Taylor.

This advice is in the form of two short guidelines (downloadable at right) on improving integration as well as working closely with the vegetation and water planning areas on adaptive management opportunities in their Resource Vegetation Management Plans (RVMP) and Water Resource Planning (WRP) activities.