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The Landcare Perspective the Quarterly Newsletter of the Upper Shoalhaven and Upper Deua Catchments AUTUMN 2015 The Landcare Perspective The Quarterly Newsletter of the Upper Shoalhaven and Upper Deua Catchments Autumn 2015 The Landcare Election Issue With government funding for Landcare is in long-term decline and a state Inside this issue: government election during this publication month, we asked Monaro electorate candidates from the three major parties how much they value Vice President’s 2 Landcare. Here are their responses. Report Q: What are the key benefits of Landcare in the Monaro Electorate? The Landcare 3 Community Pater Marshall, Greens In most places where Landcare is active, it is an invaluable tool for Update from the TLSO 3 educating the community, local landholders and managers about best practices in all aspects of land management. B4CC Program Update 4 It helps bring the local landholders together to tackle common problems and organise a coordinated approach to weeds, feral animal baiting Platypus 6 programmes, management of waterways and maximising the benefits of The Landcare Election 8 funding and labour. Issue (cont) When project funding and labour are combined, real outcomes can be achieved in re-vegetation and rehabilitation projects and other projects Progressing the 10 that are too costly for the individual on a larger scale. Bungonia Heritage and Sustainability Project The Member for Monaro, John Barilaro With a strong sense of stewardship, Landcare provides an important Welcome back to the 12 service to our communities. In the South East region, Landcare has Majors Creek more than 300 groups in 13 local network areas. These groups work Landcare Group on a variety of projects including soil health, landscape scale Landscape 13 conservation and education and training. Assessments at Mulloon Regeneration and 14 Steve Whan, Labor conservation Landcare and its dedicated volunteers have been very important in Growing the 14 our region, as local Member for eight years and as a former Minister Braidwood Garlic for Primary Industries and now Shadow Minister I have observed much of the work that has been done with revegetation, protecting Growers and enhancing riparian corridors etc. Landcare is a great example of Time to think about 15 primary producers working with other pig trapping environmentalists with great results. Continued on p8. Upper Shoalhaven Landcare Council Publishing Policy Contact: (02) 48422594 Upper Shoalhaven Landc are Council welcomes and encourages diverse and robust discussion on Landcare issues. We publish the Landcare Perspective as a forum for upper.shoalhaven Landcare community to talk with itself about any Landcare issues and welcome @gmail.com contributing articles. The USLC does not endorse the views or material contained in the www.uppershoalhavenland contributions of members of the public or other contributors. The USLC may edit, remove care.com.au/ or exercise its discretion not to publish your contribution for legal, editorial or operational reasons, including if it is offensive, compromising, intentionally false or misleading or for other reasons. Our full publication policy is under development and a draft will be provide on request. The Landcare Perspective Page 2 Vice exciting project that seeks to put Braidwood as a regional hub for producing garlic and is a great continuum of our Regional President’s Food Producers project. The project is being headed up by our Report ex-president, Colin McLean, Su Wild-River and Bronwyn Greetings Landcare Richards of the BGGG. I think that is a positive move away community. For those from our more traditional Landcare activities and wish all who haven’t met me those involved in the project a great growing season and a as yet my name is bumper harvest. Richard Stone. As our Disappointingly we were unsuccessful in getting a Round 2 President, Martin Green Army project up but are in the process of reapplying Royds is away in under Round 3. If you haven’t heard about the Green Army it’s Southern Africa on a Holistic Management study tour I’m a Federally Funded program that aims to introduce young folk stepping up to let you know about what the Upper to environmental works and can include works on locally Shoalhaven Landcare Council has been up to over the last significant infrastructure like community halls. If you have any few months. Holistic Management was first developed over projects in mind contact Su at the Landcare Office. Projects 40 years ago by Allan Savory, a Zimbabwean biologist, game need to be ready commence between 1 June 2015 and 30 ranger and farmer who believed that a holistic, planned June 2016. approach to grazing can be used as a management tool to reverse land degradation. We’ll be looking forward to a Another project that the USLC management team are working report from Martin in the winter edition of the Landcare towards at present is a strategic planning process that is Perspective. seeking to set a future goals and direction for Landcare in our district. With state and Federal funding on the decrease for As the summer season draws to a close we can reflect on the Landcare community as a whole we felt that this is an what a fabulous season it has been across most of the important step to take in looking towards a long term solution district which should set folks up well for autumn. It’s to supporting a financially viable, social, cultural and certainly been a great season for some of my least favourite environmentally sustainable future for the organisation. We plants and I’ve been trying to get on top of a particularly are hoping to get as much input from all of our Landcare pesky one, Fleabane or as some may know it rag weed. groups as we can and will be sending out invitations to group Thankfully with the good soil moisture around home it’s chairs and secretary’s in the not too distant future. been fairly easy to pull out but it needs to be bagged up immediately or the immature seed heads can still set seed On a personal note I was recently accepted through an even after its been pulled from the ground. Autumn is my application process to attend an intensive leadership course favourite season to get any tree plantings underway, over the next few months that is being supported by South particularly with the good summer rains that we’ve had. Of East Local Land Services and the Federal Government. I’m course for a really successful planting project, preparation hoping to gain insights as to what it means to be a leader and like most things in life is the key to a thriving planting, so how with the new skills that I gain I can have a positive good luck to those of you undertaking a reveg project and influence in setting out the strategic direction we take as an hopefully you get good follow up rains. Organisation. One of the projects that USLC is working on right now in Yours in Landcare partnership with the Braidwood Garlic Growers Group Richard Stone, Vice President, USLC (BGGG) and that we were successful in obtaining a small grant through the 25th Anniversary Landcare Grants is “Growing the Braidwood Garlic Growers”. This is a very AUTUMN 2015 Page 3 The Landcare Community Article contributed by Landcare NSW to work in partnership The Landcare community’s hard work on the Sustaining with Government. As you Landcare Campaign is providing dividends. Landcare NSW are aware, without a has been in contact with Ministerial staffers, Ministers and properly funded Landcare Shadow Ministers and they have told us they are aware of support program many the campaign. So the message is definitely getting through Landcare groups will face and it’s been a great effort by everyone. But we are not an uncertain future. It is there yet. crucial that we continue to highlight Landcare’s ability to leverage additional It is short weeks until the resources and the value of Landcare in your local election and major parties community. are likely to announce policies soon. We are We need to continue speaking with our local members, keeping our fingers crossed and candidates, to highlight to them why sustaining for Landcare. Whatever the Landcare is crucial to the future of sustainable result, we have certainly agriculture, conservation and strong rural communities. made our presence Here are the websites for the major political parties if felt. Government Ministers you’d like to email them directly. Alternatively you may and MPs are now better wish to approach your local member, or the offices of informed about what Ministers Grant, Hodgkinson, Humphries and Stokes or Landcare is all about and the the Leader of the Opposition Mr Luke Foley. challenges we face. http://www.nswnationals.org.au; http:// www.nswlabor.org.au https://nsw.liberal.org.auhttp:// But what we really need is a nsw.greens.org.au Banksia tubestock at Currajuggle. new Landcare support Picture by Su Wild-River, program. We’ll keep you informed of progress. Once the policies are announced, we will analyse them and decide our There are some positive signs coming out from the parties. But we won’t know where we stand until we policy details are released. Landcare NSW’s proposal outlines four major areas that would unlock our thousands of volunteers so they can work to achieve Landcare’s full potential. The proposal outlines the need for on ground coordinators throughout all regions; a central support team; an Aboriginal Landcare facilitator; and a Minister with portfolio responsibility for Landcare. This program would enable us to build upon our 25 years of knowledge and experience. A relatively small injection of funding, $7.5m per annum, Some of the local Landcare community.
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