Use WARMS data at the right scale
WARMS is designed to be interpreted at the vegetation type or regional scale, rather than lease (station) scale. Information gathered is typically used to inform government and the general community, rather than to provide tactical management advice for individual land managers.
Examples of the information in reports are:
- Report card on sustainable natural resource use in the rangelands of Western Australia
- Pastoral rangeland condition and trend: annual reports
WARMS sites are not randomly distributed, or distributed only on land in better condition classes: they are selectively distributed across poor-to-good condition classes (poor with the ability to recover) for each land system. WARMS sites are not indicative of overall condition at the lease level, and should only be interpreted as an aggregate dataset.
For detailed information on the WARMS methodology, download the Western Australian rangeland monitoring system for grasslands: field manual.