Queensland update - autumn

Staff from the Mulloon Institute spent time with station owners in the Mt Garnet area recently to deliver the first in a series of workshops as part of Terrain NRM’s Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project.

The three year project is working with landholders to stop thousands of tonnes of fine sediment from reaching the Great Barrier Reef each year through engineered erosion solutions and improved land management practices on cattle stations. This includes rock chutes, bank battering and revegetation, timber pile fields, whoa-boys and road drainage management.

Regenerative Agriculture Consultant Sam Skeat (Mulloon Institute) led the workshop and took landholders through looking for early signs of erosion, getting a better understanding of how water moves through the landscape and learning about simple, low-cost and environmentally-friendly ways to nip erosion in the bud, all while improving soil moisture in the process.

The Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project is funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

Learn more about the project: https://terrain.org.au/what-we-do/upper-herbert-sediment/