Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify interrelationships between the natural environment and human activity.
- Source information on ecological systems and their interrelationship to the activity setting.
- Determine human impact of outdoor recreational activity on ecological systems and their interrelationships.
- Consult with appropriate authorities to identify sensitive areas within the setting and aspects unique to it.
- Liaise with stakeholders to identify parameters of use.
- Identify implications of parameters of use for planning of outdoor recreation activities within the setting.
- Prepare a minimal impact plan for the activity and setting.
- Analyse current environmental management strategies for the site implemented by resource managers.
- Identify and assess the characteristics of the setting according to the proposed outdoor recreation activity.
- Identify other uses of the setting, the relationship to current management strategies and the implications for offering appropriate recreation opportunities.
- Identify minimal impact practices and procedures to reduce impact on the natural environment according to relevant legislation and organisational minimal impact policies and procedures.
- Develop and document a minimal impact plan for the activity according to relevant legislation and resource management principles for the setting.
- Implement and monitor minimal impact plan.
- Explain aims of minimal impact plan to activity participants.
- Communicate unique aspects of the setting and specific impacts likely to occur during an activity to participants in the activity.
- Conduct activities according to minimal impact plan, relevant legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
- Monitor effectiveness of minimal impact plan.
- Evaluate minimal impact practices.