Burdekin Landscape Repair early insights
Delivering landscape repair at scale across the Burdekin comes with opportunities and challenges, and NQ Dry Tropics Project Manager Thijs Krugers recently shared early insights from the organisation’s Reef Trust project at the recent Landscape Repair Forum. Speaking to fellow Reef Trust Landscape Repair delivery partners, Thijs provided an update on project progress, highlighting key […]
Maintenance project wraps up
A three-year gully maintenance and monitoring project in the Bowen, Broken, Bogie (BBB) catchment has officially wrapped up with a celebratory dinner in Collinsville. The event provided an opportunity to review before-and-after photos of 25 gully sites treated under the Landholders Driving Change (LDC2) project — five large-scale and 20 small-scale — treating over 11,000 metres […]
Technical report available
For many years, NQ Dry Tropics has been carrying out gully remediation works — large and small — across the Burdekin region. It’s become clear that graziers are increasingly keen to learn about ways to manage erosion features on their properties. At the same time, our extension and field staff continue to expand our own […]
Streambank rehabilitation
This NQ Dry Tropics project is delivering streambank repairs along Logan Creek, a tributary of the Burdekin River, with funding from the Queensland Government through the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) following the record-breaking rainfall and flooding event in 2021. The specific event damage being addressed was caused by the Central, Southern and Western Queensland […]
FREE Maps & Apps workshop
Keen to learn more about free mapping programs? Our Maps & Apps workshops have been a big hit over the years, with plenty of positive feedback. People leave with a solid grasp of tools like Queensland Globe, Avenza (a free mapping app), FORAGE, and more — and how to use them to benefit their grazing […]
FREE whoa boy workshops
Get involved in FREE practical workshops to help landholders control erosion on tracks and fence lines. Our workshops provide land managers with: For more information and to register your interest, contact Soil Conservation Officer Bernie Claussen mobile: 0438 223 152 email: bernie.claussen@nqdrytropics.com.au. Register your interest
Policy Engagement
THE aim of the Policy Engagement Activity Area is to facilitate better landholder engagement in relevant policy development and implementation in the Bowen, Broken and Bogie (BBB) catchments. A great example of how the Landholders Driving Change project can coordinate engagement between government and landholders on policy and regulatory issues arose in 2017 with the […]
Other land managers
“I want to see this project become a model for future investment in the reef, I want to see the whole community actually participating, engaged and interested in this project not just over the next three years but on into the future.” The Landholders Driving Change project encourages land managers who are non-graziers in the […]
Landscape remediation
GULLY erosion causes approximately 65 per cent of the fine sediment load that comes from the BBB. The Landscape Remediation program, one of five activity areas in the Landholders Driving Change project, aims to develop fast, effective and economical approaches to gully remediation. It builds on existing landscape remediation expertise and lessons learnt from previous […]
BBB grazier support
MORE than 90 per cent of land in the Bowen Broken Bogie catchment (BBB) is used for grazing. The BBB grazier support program is part of the Landholders Driving Change project. The BBB Grazier Support program aims to provide every BBB grazier with education, training, technical support and incentives to help them adopt improved land […]