Teaching local students about Local Threatened Species has been wonderful. The kids had a blast and so did we. Travelling the Riverina with Douglas the Australasian Bittern, Louise the Malleefowl and Goldie the Plains-wanderer, they fought for the front seat but were generally well-behaved. Having Michael Lyons from Narrandera Sandhills Artifacts was fabulous. Hearing…
This summary of the recent NSW Landcare & LLS Conference in Broken Hill has been written by Craig Pullman, Regional Landcare Coordinator from North West Region. It’s hard to summarise a whole conference in two pages, but Craig has framed it as a showbag of goodies for those who couldn’t go, written in an entertaining…
Presentations from the MLi Forum, “Looking back, moving forward”, held on 26-27 October 2011 at Ladysmith, are available to download below. Groundwater Management and Salinity Control Carbon Sequestration and Management Preserving Biodiversity at the Landscape Level Progress in Natural Resource Management
Presentations from the MLi Forum, “Re-valuing our Rangelands”, held in Hay on 7-8 August 2012, are available below.
About 60 people attended the Streambank Erosion Workshop held in Tarcutta on 12th September. Hosted by Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc in partnership with Tarcutta Valley and Kyeamba Valley Landcare Groups, the aim of the workshop was to provide landholders with a range of ideas and practical solutions and for dealing with streambank erosion. Engineering Solutions for…
The 2016 National Landcare Conference was held in Melbourne on 21 – 23 September 2016. A report on some of the key presentations from the Conference is available below, with links to full presentations (where available).
In February 2017, CottonInfo, Murrumbidgee Landcare, Murrumbidgee Irrigation, Riverina Local Land Services and the Australian Government ran two field days in the Murrumbidgee Valley. The aim was to extend the latest cotton industry riparian vegetation research outcomes, increase participants’ awareness of the value of riparian vegetation on farms and educate them on the latest best…