In 1990 the National Trust (Victoria) established an initiative called “Save the Bush” with the objective of bush regeneration by trained operatives. PaRC has secured the documents describing the establishment of the project, the training sessions and the initial contracts.

The public material has been split into two files, one with pages 1-26 (13.3 MB) and the other with pages 27-64 (28.5 MB), to aid uploading. The contract documentation may be useful to any parks supervisor contemplating training their own staff.

In addition, the report prepared for internal purposes is also reproduced here to explain the background.

PaRC invites anyone associated with this National Trust program to send a review or a narrative on their experience.