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This Management Information System provides information on selected conservation and production issues for the tussock grasslands of New Zealand. You can either use the site index to find the issue you wish to look at, or you can follow through from chosing a broad vegetation community, to deciding what your managment goal is for the community, and then to providing you with suggested management guidelines to achieve that goal. These guidelines were developed with existing scientific information, and land manager's observations.
However, these guidelines should not be seen as final. In fact the total MIS is not a final product. New knowledge will continuously become available that could be added to the system. This new information will not only come from scientists through their ongoing research activities, but also from land managers and policy makers who are continuously implementing the strategies and then monitor the outcomes of their actions. This new information will either confirm the usefulness of the existing guidelines, or could be used to develop new, or refine the existing guidelines in the MIS. It is important that you share your ideas with others, and the MIS makes provision for you to do so. You may have ideas, observations or actual results from your monitoring programme that don't agree with information held in the MIS. Please share these with others, by using the discussion forum provided on most of the pages in the MIS.
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Structure and organisation