Andrew Brooks – Landholders Driving Change project

Associate Professor Andrew Brooks – Griffith Centre for Coastal Management – Griffith University Gullies are a nuisance for landholders; undermining fences, stockyards and roads – and eventually contributing to reduced available productive land. They are also a major...
Community landcare groups plan for the future

Community landcare groups plan for the future

Local community groups who attended an NQ Dry Tropics site management planning workshop in Townsville last week learned important skills that will help them deliver their projects more effectively. The aim of the workshop was to to help landcare community groups...
“Unlikely bedfellows” working together

“Unlikely bedfellows” working together

“Unlikely bedfellows” working together to improve land condition Fifth-generation grazier Bristow Hughes believes that bringing graziers, scientists and technical experts around the table to design gully erosion solutions and improve water quality is already yielding...
Ground cover key to project success

Ground cover key to project success

The Queensland Government-funded Landholders Driving Change project  supports graziers in the Collinsville/Bowen area to improve land condition and productivity, and repair erosion which affects water quality. Unlike traditional government funding programs, this is...
Landholders Driving Change

Landholders Driving Change

Graziers and scientists unite to design land and water quality solutions. “Working with scientists has been surprising. They are just like us. They want our input and have been putting the water science information into our language, so it’s understandable”. So...