On the farms we’ve had a continuation of the extremely wet weather driven by the extended La Niña and negative Indian Ocean Dipole events. As a result, conditions in the paddocks have been quite poor for livestock and staff alike.
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Work has started on constructing contours at Warren and Lori Pensini’s property ‘Paraway’ where they run Blackwood Valley Beef, a holistic planned cattle grazing operation in Boyup Brook, Western Australia.
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A ‘Weir Optimisation Tool’ that automatically optimises the position of weirs along a river reach to generate the greatest pool volume for the minimum number of weirs, has won best poster at the 2022 Floodplain Management Australia Conference in Toowoomba, QLD.
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A saturated catchment and persistent rain have proven to be the best training environment for trialling some of the technical modules of our Advanced Landscape Rehydration Curriculum with our staff!
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In April 2022 Science Officer Nolani McColl and CEO & Managing Director Carolyn Hall travelled to Western Australia to meet with Landscape Planner Lance Mudgway and progress the WA Community Stewardship grant project – ‘Landscape Rehydration Trial & Demonstration in the Wheatbelt of WA’.
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There was a real buzz in the air at Albury for the 10th National Carbon Farming Conference and Expo during May 2022, when Carolyn Hall CEO Managing Director of the Mulloon Institute and Paris Capell Landscape Planner were warmly welcomed by key players in a rapidly expanding industry.
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The Mulloon Institute’s Chairman Gary Nairn AO and CEO Managing Director Carolyn Hall attended the recent National Soils Advocate Forum 2022: Economic considerations and market-based drivers of soil health change.
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Year 12 agriculture students from The Scots College recently enjoyed the art of ‘healing your hydrograph’ on camp at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms. With energy and flair, the students engaged with soils, streams, erosion and landscape rehydration out in the field and in silty microcosm, actively ‘slowing the flow’ with our new geomorphology model.
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We’ve recently delivered a Landscape Rehydration workshop for the Gecko CLaN Network in Victoria. The network includes 19 Landcare groups in central Victoria from Yarrawonga to Seymour, and is home to some of Australia’s oldest Landcare groups!
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The Mulloon Institute is currently conducting a literature review of landscape rehydration in the Western Australian context and is also working on a digital information hub that will be a central point for WA landscape rehydration resources.
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The Mulloon Institute has bee, awarded a $170,000 NSW Government grant, to reconnect the Molonglo River with its adjacent floodplain and help rebuild habitat for the Green and Golden Bell Frog – the only known population of the species in the Southern Tablelands region.
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Turnip Creek landholders in Victoria are working towards a catchment scale project in their region with unmistakeable commitment, passion and desire to enable change. They have formed a consortium with Bush Heritage Australia, Alluvium and the Mulloon Institute to seek funding for a catchment scale project.
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The Mulloon Institute and HydroTerra are working in partnership with NSW DPI Agriculture to development a Catchment Rehydration Selection Tool through funding from the DPI’s Climate Smart Pilots Project, Demonstrating Adaptation Program.
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The Mulloon Institute seeks an appropriate environmental, engineering and planning organisation to draft a plain English “Catchment Remediation Code” that can be used by (i) landowners and government departments to construct “Code Compliant” best practice “Landscape Rehydration Works” and (ii) regulators to ascertain whether a structure is “Code Compliant” (and exempt from the need for pre-construction government approvals).
The Catchment Remediation Code will need to fit within the current NSW environment and development regime. It should also provide a model for use in other jurisdictions in Australia (such as Queensland and Victoria).
Submissions are welcomed by 30 June 2022. More details here
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Greta Valley Landcare were the first to experience the Mulloon Institute Learning Program’s newest Bootcamp – ‘Rehydrating Your Farm Landscape’, which leads landholders through a series of informative presentations, discussions and engaging activities on how landscape rehydration benefits their farms.
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After initial site inspections at seven Wheatbelt properties over many months, three have now been chosen as participants in the on-ground trials for the Mulloon Institute’s ‘Landscape Rehydration Trial & Demonstration in the Wheatbelt of WA’ project.
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The Queensland team are working hard to complete projects across the dry tropics. Two projects are set to have machines on the ground within the next few months which will help deliver transformative landscape rehydration measures to northern landscapes.
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We’re seeking a Science Officer to undertake fieldwork, data collection and analysis, reporting, and communication of data to stakeholders and the broader community. The role forms part of the small team managing the scientific and technical monitoring and reporting for the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
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A group of 15 enthusiastic ANU Intrepid Landcare members visited the ‘Duralla’ property at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms during March to volunteer their time to support and contribute to the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
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Join us on a journey as we take you through the process of installing the leaky weir at Westview, as part of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
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