Queensland update
The wet season has well and truly arrived in Townsville but that doesn’t mean work has stopped. Instead Sam Skeat and Joe Skuse have been busy delivering workshops and preparing for what is sure to be a full-on 2022.
The Landsdowne Catchment Rehydration Initiative (LCRI) funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund, is progressing well, with educational outreach forming a cornerstone of the project. As part of the LCRI, Sam presented at the Grazing Innovation Bus Tour in late November along with Grazing Naturally’s Dick Richardson and it was exciting to showcase resilient grazing systems to Burdekin landholders. The event was supported by NQ Dry Tropics and the Mulloon Institute, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program and the Future Drought Fund.
Sam also ran a workshop near Mt Garnet in partnership with Terrain NRM. The workshop was the first of a four-part series to take place over the next two years as part of the Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project being delivered by Terrain NRM and funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. The workshop focused on how water moves in the landscape and the role of plants in managing that water. We look forward to working with Terrain NRM more over the next couple of years.
Sam Skeat discussing soil erosion control near Mt Garnet.
Sam and Joe have been working with Northwest Local Land Services in the preliminary stages of a landscape rehydration and stream remediation demonstration project near Winton, 30 minutes west of Tamworth, NSW. The project will deliver significant ecological and productive returns while also demonstrating the role of landscape rehydration in creating resilient rural landscapes into the future. Watch this space into 2022.