BCCA – Burnett Catchment Care Association

The Leucaena Network, together with DAFF, are hosting an intensive 2 day workshop designed to take out the guesswork, minimise mistakes and maximise your returns when establishing and managing Leucaena.

Where: Kingaroy DAFF office

When: July 9 and 10, 9am

Cost: $400 +gst (includes lunch and smoko)

To view flier click  here!!

RSVP: Stuart Buck 0427 929 187 or Berry Reynolds 0418 928 222

To the 40+ landholders who partnered with us and to undertake projects on their land to protect the rare ecosystems and species, we’d like to say well done!  Despite all the hassels with the weather over the past 12 months, and then a greater workload for yourselves and for the contractors being use, you got stuck in to the projects that you set out to do and got them done!

The average grant received through this program over the past 18 months was $8,000 and many landholders made the most of the opportunity by fencing off endangered scrub country, controlling weeds or pests threatening the habitat of endangered marsupials or putting in new firebreaks to better manage larger remnants of fire-sensitive vegetation.  The total number of hectares for all this work was over 36,000ha.  The majority of these projects were in the central and north Burnett area.

To read more about some of the work that was done across the inland Burnett by graziers, farmers and lifestyle block owners, read about them from our selection of Case Studies.

BMRG are running a FREE Erosion Workshops in Mundubbera on Thursday, 30th of May & Kingaroy Friday, 31 May 2013 on the impacts of erosion and management options. Learn what kind of erosion has occurred on your farm, and the best practical way to stabilise the area.

Guest Presenter Grant Witheridge is a civil engineer with some 30 years’ experience in the fields of hydraulics, creek engineering and erosion and sediment control.

•             Identify the types and causes of erosion

•             Learn how to determine the appropriate selection and application of a wide range of treatment techniques

•             Travel by bus to various erosion sites in the region and learn how to read the erosion markings in the soil in order to identify the types of erosion.

 To RSVP Please contact Vikki Evans on 07 4169 0720. Please see the attached flyers for further information.

Mundubbera erosion flier click here!!

Kingaroy erosion flier click here!!

BMRG are holding a FREE 2 day course presented by Grant Witheridge, on the impacts of erosion on our creeks, rivers and gullies.  Learn what kind of erosion has occurred, and the best practical way to stabilise the area.

When: 9 May (8am – 5pm) and 10 May (9am – 4pm)

Where: 220 Bourbong Street, Bundaberg (Sugar Country Motor Inn)

RSVP: By 8 May to Vikki on 4169 0720 or email vikki.evans@bmrg.org.au

To view flier click HERE!!

BMRG are hosting a half day toolbox talk that will focus on: rebuilding paddocks after a flood event, improving soil health by increasing soil carbon, reducing waterlogging and fast tracking recovery of your paddocks to production.

Presenters include, John Hall from Crop Management Australia, Tim Neale from Precision Ag and Rhonda Toms-Moran Climate Change Officer at QMDC.

When: Friday 3 May, 7.30am – 11.30am

Where: Kalkie Research Station

RSVP: By 1 May to Vikki 4181 2999 or email vikki.evans@bmrg.org.au

To view flier click HERE!!!

The staff at BCCA have been working hard over the past year putting together nearly 50 Reef Rescue projects with graziers in the coastal Burnett area, and almost 30 projects under the Healthy Habitats program (both in partnership with Burnett Mary Regional Group).

Excitingly, most of those projects have been completed, despite the very dry period and then the very very wet period we have experienced at the start of this year.

However the due date for these projects to be completed is coming close and ALL PROJECTS must be COMPLETED no later than the END OF MAY 2013, as there will be no extensions.

If you have a project and you have some concerns about meeting this deadline, speak to your project manager or phone or email the BCCA office as soon as possible.

At Boat Mountain Conservation Park near Murgon, which is a mixture of eucalypt forest and vine-thicket scrub, walking tracks and lookouts.  The small Park is less than 100ha and is surrounded by farmland.

Join us on Sunday morning 19 May 2013 from 8am to wonder through the Park with birdwatchers from Birdlife in Bundaberg.

Cost is free, and there will be some binoculars and bird books available for loan during the workshop, but if you’ve got your own, they’re always best!

Bring sturdy footwear, a hat a waterbottle and join us at the carpark at Boat Mountain at 8am.  Please let us know if you intend to come 4166 3898.

Click here to download the flyer.

Need directions??  Download the Mudmap to Boat Mountain Park!

Learn how to apply Natural Sequence Farming techniques as developed at Tarwyn Park to your own  landscape.

Where/When:  -Benaraby Saturday 27 April

                            Calliope – Sunday 28 April

                                              Jambin/Baralaba -Tuesday 30 April

                                         Springsure – Wednesday 1 May

Cost: Free

RSVP: Dan on 0428 646 857 or email grassrootsgrazing@bigpond.com

To view flier click HERE!!