MRCCC 2016 Annual Report
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MRCCC Annual General Meeting Thursday 27th October 2016 The MRCCC gratefully acknowledges the support of the; Australian Government Department of Environment, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Burnett Mary Regional Group, Sunshine Coast Council, Gympie Regional Council, Noosa Council, Unity Water, Seqwater, HQPlantations, Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation, Bendigo Community Bank Cooroy, Gympie District Beef Liaison Group, and thousands of volunteers who consistently contribute their time and resources to ongoing sustainable natural resource management in the Mary River Catchment. The MRCCC also acknowledges the traditional owners of the Mary River Catchment and their ancestors past and present Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee Resource Centre 25 Stewart Terrace, Gympie Postal PO Box 1027, Gympie, 4570 Phone 07 5482 4766 Fax 07 5482 5642 Email [email protected] Web www.mrccc.org.au Find us on Facebook Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee DONATIONS TO THE MARY CATCHMENT PUBLIC FUND ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE Front cover graphics: Glenbo Craig Front cover images: Annamiek Wilson, Naomi Cartner, Caitlin Mill, Jillian Turner, Tyrone Strandquist, Amelia Nielsen MRCCC ANNUAL REPORT 2016 CONTENTS MRCCC Staff and Volunteers ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 MRCCC Current Projects ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 MRCCC Delegates 2015 - 2016 ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Chairman’s Report ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Vale Graham Smith ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Vale Mal Thompson ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Mary Catchment Waterwatch – Jess Dean .................................................................................................................................... 8 Waterwatch Statistics ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Waterwatch Volunteers 2015-2016 ........................................................................................................................................ 10 2016 Catchment Crawl ................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Reef Program #2, Grazing Lands in the Mary Catchment (2013-2016) – Brad Wedlock ............................................................ 13 Biodiversity Fund Report – Caitlin Mill ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Restoring Riparian Resilience: Implementing the Mary River Threatened Aquatic Species Recovery Plan ........................... 16 Biodiversity Fund project highlights ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Kandanga Creek property cluster ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Charles Street River Park, Kenilworth ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Engaging with the community ................................................................................................................................................. 18 Biocontrol releases continue to increase throughout the catchment .................................................................................... 18 Living with Threatened Species – Eva Ford ................................................................................................................................. 19 Frog wrap-up............................................................................................................................................................................ 19 MRCCC Student Workplace learning program ........................................................................................................................ 19 The Sunshine Coast hinterland ................................................................................................................................................ 20 Belli/Cedar Catchment Care Community ................................................................................................................................. 20 Mary River Threatened Aquatic Species Recovery Plan – Tanzi Smith........................................................................................ 21 Great Barrier Reef Catchment Loads Monitoring program expands to Fishermans Pocket – Tanzi Smith................................. 22 Inaugural Mary River Month 2015 a success ............................................................................................................................... 23 Teachers and students “Get to know the Mary River” Ed Studio................................................................................................ 23 Creating Connections through Reconnecting a Koala Corridor in the Goomboorian District .................................................... 24 The Gerry Cook Hatchery and Mary River Cod Breeding Program .............................................................................................. 26 Noosa Festival of Water ............................................................................................................................................................... 28 Land for Wildlife in the Wide Bay Region 2015-2016 – Annette Bourke .................................................................................... 29 Policy and project submissions 2015-2016.................................................................................................................................. 30 Representations ........................................................................................................................................................................... 30 ~ 1 ~ MRCCC ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Workshops, Festivals & Field-days .............................................................................................................................................. 30 Training, Schools and kids activities ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Conferences and presentations at seminars ............................................................................................................................... 31 MRCCC Research Project Collaboration ...................................................................................................................................... 31 Koala Action Group Gympie region ............................................................................................................................................. 32 The Valley Bees Year .................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Landcare and Catchment Management in the Mary River Catchment ....................................................................................... 34 Gympie & District Landcare Group .......................................................................................................................................... 34 Noosa & District Landcare Group ............................................................................................................................................ 35 Greater Mary Association ........................................................................................................................................................ 36 Tiaro Landcare ......................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Barung Landcare ...................................................................................................................................................................... 38 8th Australian Stream Management Conference, Katoomba, NSW ............................................................................................ 39 Understanding the aspirations and perspectives of Rivercarers in the Mary River catchment, Queensland. ....................... 39 Using BioCondition Assessment in the Mary River catchment to evaluate riparian restoration ............................................ 39 Mary River – Understanding processes and values