Landscape rehydration is a key priority in agricultural areas around Australia, with approximately 60% of Australia’s valuable agricultural land degraded and continuing to degrade. These dehydrated landscapes have been negatively affected by soil erosion, compaction, loss of organic matter and the draining of wetlands. Continuing degradation of floodplains, slope erosion and land clearing has affected the resilience of our catchments to respond to these challenges with devastating consequences.

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Many land managers are looking for ways to protect their land resources and waterways and initiate recovery following recent fires in Australia.

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Why do we LOVE wetlands!?!

Wetlands are so important. They filter the air and the water; they capture pollutants and recycle nutrients; they are full of biodiversity; they are wildlife nurseries and refuges; they dissipate solar energy and moderate climate extremes; and, they capture carbon and build landscapes.

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Back in December 2019, firefighting helicopters were filling up from leaky weirs on Martin Royds' Jillamatong property to fight the fires threatening Braidwood. According to Martin, who sits on The Mulloon Institute's Board, the weirs' ability to endure during times of drought comes down to natural sequence farming and regenerative agriculture.

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Landscape resilience in action

Like so many thousands of other Australians this summer, The Mulloon Institute’s Peter Hazell, and his wife Donna, were confronted with the full fury of bushfire when the Currawan (renamed locally as the Charleys Forest) fire burnt through two thirds of Peter and Donna’s 350ha property, Baarlijan, near Braidwood.

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Given the circumstances at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, I find it difficult to use the "H" word in front of "New Year" that under normal circumstances I would start my message with at this time.

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From ABC Rural, by Tom Major

The leaders of a project to rehydrate the landscape of a north Queensland cattle property say the results are proof that profits can flow from keeping more scarce rainfall on-farm. With assistance from NRM group NQ Dry Tropics and the consultancy arm of The Mulloon Institute the country has been rehabilitated.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

Our offices will be closed from Friday 20 December (COB).

We will reopen on Monday 6 January 2020.

Have a safe Christmas Holiday period, from all of us at The Mulloon Institute!

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The Savory Global Network is gathering in Albury NSW in March 2020, and in association with the Australian Holistic Management Cooperative is organising two days of events. Registrations now open.

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Written by Lucy Bladen for The Canberra Times, 9 December 2019

A group of adult yellow-spotted bell frogs, a species previously thought to have been extinct, has been released at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms as part of a trial program to see how they fare in the wild. Radio transmitters have been attached to the frogs to track progress.

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The Mulloon Institute has released it 2019 Annual Report, showing an ever increasing number of followers and supporters which helps to ensure the ongoing success of TMI and the work we are doing.

Read TMI’s Annual Report 2019 (8.8 MB)

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Year 12 Plant Production students from The Scots College visited Mulloon Creek Natural Farms during November to learn about soils and how different soil characteristics impact plant growth, water infiltration and soil water holding capacity.

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#WorldSoilDay

Over the last two weeks we've had a professional drill rig unit onsite from Terratest extracting soil core samples as part of our baseline monitoring work in the Mulloon Community Landscape Rehydration Project. The drill rig work was overseen by TMI’s Soil Hydrologist Tony Bernardi and used a sonic vibration method to extract the soil cores, which were then expertly handled by Soil Scientist Wayne Cook.

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From Landcare in Focus - November 2019

A section of Mulloon Creek near Braidwood, NSW was deeply incised with eroded and slumping banks and sand slugs but is now a healthy vibrant ecosystem filtering water through extensive reed beds and providing habitat for a myriad of animals. Cattle can now graze alongside this section of Mulloon Creek on The Mulloon Institute’s Mulloon Creek Natural Farms demonstration property.

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While the Field Day was on at Mulloon, Mulloon Community Landscape Rehydration Project Coordinator Peter Hazell was on the road speaking about the project's journey, from inception to the current on-ground works, at events around NSW. Plus, I had the chance to catchup with singer songwriter and good friend of Tony and Toni Coote, Kevin Welch, at a concert in Canberra.

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Our 2019 Annual General Meeting was a great success, with an overview of the dynamic year just gone and an emphasis on the increasing momentum surrounding regenerative agriculture and landscape rehydration. We announced several exciting new appointments, including Carolyn Hall's new role as CEO of TMI and MCCC, and unveiled our first professionally designed and printed Annual Report 2019.

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Towards the end of November (and now continuing into December) we have been reminded of the ever existing danger of bushfires with a very large fire burning in the Tallaganda National Park to the south east of MCNF’s Home Farm.

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Research Coordinator Luke Peel has been busy with coordinating an on-site drilling unit for installing monitoring equipment and taking soil cores, undertaking scientific monitoring as part of our baseline work, taking part in the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance Government Policy Group round table at Southern Cross University and welcoming hydrologist Tony Bernardi to the TMI team.

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