Working plan for managing wild dogs

This wild dog management strategy is made up of 2 books.

Guidelines for Preparing a Working Plan to Manage Wild Dogs

This guide (the brown book) is an aid to completing a Working Plan to Manage Wild Dogs (the green book). The brown book follows the 6-step strategic approach to managing pest animals and gives some common answers to the questions posed in the green book. The strategic approach aims to assist the various stakeholders to work together and develop a strategic plan of action to manage wild dogs in their area.

The brown book also outlines a nil-tenure approach to planning and budgeting that has worked successfully in the Brindabella-Wee Jasper area.

Working Plan for Managing Wild Dogs

This document (the green book) is a template for preparing a plan of action for the on-ground management of wild dogs. (See also Best practice pest animal management).

The green book outlines a 6-step strategic approach to managing wild dogs and poses a number of questions to assist in making a local plan. To make a local plan, read the questions and write down the answers in the book. If planning occurs out of doors, it would pay to print the green book on green paper to reduce glare.

A local working plan is best prepared with the aid of the accompanying Guidelines for Preparing a Working Plan to Manage Wild Dogs (the brown book) and topographic maps. Appropriate public land manager’s policies and the book Managing the Impacts of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs by Peter Fleming, Laurie Corbett, Bob Harden and Peter Thomson (2001) (Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra). pp. 186 are also helpful in preparing a plan.