Warren and Lance inspecting sediment accumulation behind a pin weir constructed in 2022.

Looking down a salt scolded gully at pin weir structures designed to slow the flow of water and reduce erosion.

The Mulloon Institute’s WA Landscape Planner team visited Warren Pensini at his ‘Paraway’ farm in early March 2023, to take a look at landscape rehydration works completed last year and prepare for our upcoming bootcamp.

‘Paraway’ is implementing a holistic approach to managing their landscape for productivity and ecological outcomes, with a particular interest in repairing salt affected areas and reducing the impacts of waterlogging and erosion in the lower landscape.

Lance and Warren Pensini inspecting an eroding gully that requires intervention.

The contour earthworks, pin weirs, brush matressing, mulching, perennial pasture establishment and revegetation works undertaken as part of the farm’s rehydration project are all functioning well. The revegetation works, designed to improve water recharge at the top of ridges and below contours, were particularly impressive with close to 100% survival and rapid growth of some species across most of the project site.

These intervention works provided great examples to demonstrate the landscape rehydration tools and provide practical education to participants of the Landscape Rehydration Bootcamp that followed later in the month.

This project has been funded through the Western Australian Government’s State Natural Resource Management program.