TMI’s Sam Skeat explaining how to build a gully plug.

The team in Townsville, QLD have just completed a workshop series on Stone Hut, a participating property in the Lansdown Catchment Rehydration Initiative. Sam Skeat and Joe Skuse have been working with landholder Troy Green to develop a landscape rehydration plan. Troy was generous to host both workshops on his property.

The first workshop was an ‘Introduction to Landscape Rehydration’ and focused on the core concepts of reading the landscape and working with natural features to achieve rehydration.

The second workshop was a ‘Technical Rehydration Field Day’ that ran participants through the finer details of regulations, design and construction of Landscape Rehydration measures. Participants received a run down on how to build contours, gully plugs and leaky weirs.

TMI’s Sam Seat and landholder Ty Green building a gully plug.

An exciting part of the series was that the first workshop took place before construction had started, while the second workshop returned to the same site once the works had been completed. This gave participants a unique ‘before and after’ snapshot of what can be achieved in a short amount of time. Everyone was keen to come back and see how the site had progressed following the wet season.

A special thanks goes out to Ty and Troy Green for hosting both events on their property.

These workshops was supported by NQ Dry Tropics and the Mulloon Institute, through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.