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Soil Intactness Monitoring for the Waikato Region

TR 2001/13
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Report: TR 2001/13

Author: Douglas Hicks

About this report

Waikato Regional Council has a statutory responsibility to collect information about state of the region’s environment (Section 35, Resource Management Act). The council’s strategy for environmental monitoring is given in its draft strategic plan “The Way Forward”. In future, the council foresees a need to collect more information about soil. Waikato Regional Council's participation in the 500 Soils Programme is already supplying useful base-line information about soil quality i.e. changes in soil fertility, structure and biology under different land uses. However, the 500 Soils Programme does not measure soil intactness i.e. how well the region’s soil is being kept in place as a resource for farming, forestry and conservation; and how much is being lost through erosion.

Soil Intactness Monitoring For The Waikato Region [PDF, 232 KB]