Queensland - Spring update
A highly eroded flow line in valuable black soil country.
Weetalaba
The landscape rehydration demonstration site on Weetalaba Station near Collinsville in north Queensland is in full swing. The project funded by NQ Dry Tropics through the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has progressed into the regulatory approvals phase. Our team is in the process of ensuring that all designs comply with state regulations while delivering sediment savings and ecological benefits.
Leaky weirs, contour banks and a dam are designed to rehydrate a degraded alluvial fan. An exciting feature of the design is the repair of a head-cut feature that is threatening an intact vegetation zone. This project will also include community workshops to support the understanding and implementation of landscape rehydration measure further in this high priority reef catchment.
Intact vegetation zone.
A 5m deep erosion feature.
Landsdowne
The Landsdowne Creek Community Rehydration Initiative funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund has kicked off. The project in the Landsdowne catchment near Townsville in north Queensland will see both direct landscape rehydration measures implemented as well as regenerative agriculture training and support in the Landsdowne catchment. The first community workshop was run on recently with Grazing Naturally’s principal Dick Richardson delivering regenerative grazing education to the landholders in the area. This workshop was supported by NQ Dry Tropics and was well attended by local landholders.
Grazing Naturally with Dick Richardson.
Upcoming work
Sam Skeat will be travelling to Toowoomba in September to do one on one consulting for a cropping property on the Condamine floodplain.
Terrain NRM has engaged Mulloon Consulting to deliver a four part landscape rehydration workshop series with the first of the these to be held before the end of the year.
Joe moves to NQ
Landscape Planner, Joe Skuse and his dog Colin are set to make the move up north from Canberra as soon as COVID permits. Joe has been relocated to assist in meeting the growing demand for landscape rehydration works in Queensland. Joe is a welcome addition to the Queensland team with plenty of exciting projects in the pipeline.