Voice of the Regions
March 2007
Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
Good Land Management Awards
As part of National Landcare week, the Dalrymple Landcare Committee, in conjunction with BDTNRM and the SPIRAL project, are holding the second annual Good Land Management Awards... read more
SPIRAL in the Burdekin Rangelands
Dalrymple Landcare Committee Inc. is an umbrella group to 17 sub-catchment groups with a membership of 320 grazing and rural properties, which equates to approximately 62% of land managers from the Dalrymple Shire, north Queensland... read more
Burnett Mary Regional Group
Scientists and land managers converge at forum
More than 150 land managers and scientists descended on Hervey Bay for the Farmland to Fraser – Resource Managers and Science symposium on 19-20 February... read more
Condamine Alliance
Horticulture producers tackle water woes
The Condamine River catchment encompasses a large number of Queensland's horticulture producers, ranging from Chinchilla in the north-west to Killarney in the south-east... read more
Preparing for rain in the Condamine
Julia Simmons’s 133 hectare 'Glenville Downs' property, at Ryeford near Clifton, sits at the bottom of a large basaltic catchment, with about 20,000 hectares of cultivated land draining through the middle of three of her paddocks – all with gradients of less than 0.5%... read more
Cape York Peninsula Development Association
Satellite fire tracking blazes path to southern Queensland
Managing fire through the use of cutting edge satellite technology was the basis of discussions at a Rangelands Fire Project meeting held at the National Parks and Wildlife office in Roma on 21 February... read more
Desert Channels Queensland
Cock-eyed bob
The shreds of cloud are racing ahead of the storm. They whip past and stir with niggling exhilaration, almost fear, that this could be more than just another summer storm... read more
The stirring of sleeping giants
Lake Eyre, in northern South Australia, waits patiently for anything the western Queensland rivers deign to give her. At times, a hollow promise; at others no more than a sip or a mouthful. But sometimes, when Jupiter aligns with Mars, she gets a gutful... read more
Fitzroy Basin Association
Something fishy on Fitzroy River floodplains
Denis and Stacy Franks of Gavial Station east of Rockhampton have discovered first hand that ponded pasture is not always the best option for cattle production... read more
Mackay Whitsunday NRM Group
Wonderful wetlands world celebration week ends
Last week was World Wetlands Week, an annual event marking the anniversary of the signing in 1971 of the International Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar, Iran... read more
Northern Gulf Resource Management Group
Scooby-Doo's mission impossible, ghost nets busting
The Ghost Nets Programme sounds more like an episode of Scooby-Doo rather than the name of a multi-award winning program implemented by Indigenous rangers to help protect sea turtles and other marine creatures in the Gulf of Carpentaria... read more
Queensland Murray-Darling Committee
Kitchen tables & roads travelled
Puddy (Nita) Chandler has spent her entire life living on the land... read more
Queensland Water and Land Carers
2007 State Landcare Awards
The 2007 State Landcare Awards will be hosted by Queensland Water and Land Carers (QWaLC) and Pioneer Catchments. The awards, sponsored by Landcare Australia Limited, will be held in August during the Queensland Landcare Conference... read more
QWaLC Network Event
Queensland Water and Land Carers’ (QWaLC) meet-and-greet afternoon tea on 31 January was attended by representatives from volunteer NRM groups, QFF, Regional Groups Collective (RGC), Department of Natural Resource and Water (NRW), Landcare Queensland, Queensland Conservation Council, SEQ Catchments, CSIRO and Agforce... read more
SEQ Catchments
SEQ leading the way in climate change modelling
The SEQ Regional Climate Change Adaptation Demonstration Project is an Australian first... read more
South West NRM
Landcare groups re-invigorate, re-form and react!
Recent rainfall and a better outlook for the region are encouraging signs for the reinvigoration of the Landcare movement in south-west Queensland... read more
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Last updated 07 March 2007