Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify the nature of the outdoor recreation activity and its relationship to natural resource management.
- Identify the types of outdoor recreation users, their motivations, skills and expectations.
- Establish key aspects of the outdoor recreation activity which might impact natural resource areas.
- Determine the parameters of the activity and the most appropriate natural resource area for its implementation.
- Identify natural resource areas where outdoor recreation may be conducted.
- Identify the different classifications of natural resource areas for relevant outdoor recreation activities according to relevant legislation.
- Analyse management issues arising from the classification of particular natural resource areas and the use of those areas for outdoor recreation.
- Identify natural resource managers, their management priorities and outdoor recreation services they may provide.
- Establish a process for the selection of natural resource areas within a specified geographic area or region where outdoor recreation activities can occur, according to relevant legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
- Implement natural resource management to plan an outdoor recreation activity.
- Identify the potential impacts of outdoor recreation on the natural resource area.
- Assess the implications of keyecological concepts on the conduct of outdoor recreation in natural resource areas.
- Identify natural resource management strategies used to manage outdoor recreation activities.
- Develop a resource management plan for the activity according to relevant legislation
- Implement management strategies to minimise potential impacts for the outdoor recreation activity.
- Liaise with relevant natural resource managers according to cultural protocols to monitor potential impacts on a specific natural resource area.
- Review the potential impacts of outdoor recreation activities on natural resource areas.
- Collect information on the impacts of relevant recreation activities on the specified recreation area.
- Assess evidence of change in the nature of a particular setting due to outdoor recreation impacts.
- Modify aspects of the resource management plan according to information received from natural resource managers and the monitoring process.