Northern Queensland update

In December last year, Central Highlands Regional Resources Use Planning Cooperative (CHRRUP) ran a landscape rehydration workshop at Powlathanga Station near Charters Towers. The workshop was presented by Sam Skeat from The Mulloon Institute and was attended by a mixture of graziers and government and NRM organisation staff who learnt a lot about the causes and impacts of erosion, identifying landscape features and water flow and techniques to minimise erosion. 

The workshop is part of the Regenerative Grazing Tools for Burdekin Soils and Pastures project that is supported by NQ Dry Tropics and funded by the Australian Government's National Landcare Program. Keep an eye out for more of these workshops in 2021, including examples of completed landscape rehydration works.

Sam has also been conducting property visits in the region to discuss landscape rehydration and landscape function for NQ Dry Tropics landholders in the Bowen Broken Bogie following interest from the Flagstone workshop last year. This work is part of the Landholders Driving Change program that is a Burdekin Major Integrated Project delivered by NQ Dry Tropics and funded by the Queensland Government through the Queensland Reed Water Quality Program.

Photos courtesy of CHRRUP’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/CHRRUPau/)