The Monaro Grassland Conservation Management Network: Reconnecting the sward

Abstract

Summary This article describes the context, evolution and structure of the Monaro Grassland Conservation Management Network, a loose framework of private and public land managers and their grassland properties located in the Monaro region of south‐eastern New South Wales. The Monaro region is characterized by lower rainfall, lower temperatures and less productive soils than other agricultural regions in south‐eastern Australia containing natural temperate grasslands. As such, it offers important opportunities for conservation of natural temperate grasslands as a significant and functional component of the landscape, under a variety of land tenures and uses including pastoral agriculture.