BCCA – Burnett Catchment Care Association

WHERE: Gympie Civic Centre Fossickers Room WHEN: Wednesday 27 August 2008 TIME: 1.00pm to 4.00pm.  Afternoon Tea Provided Project management is a controlled process of initiating, planning, executing and closing down a project.  The workshop will explore the stages of project management as well as look at 5 key aspects Good communication Understanding the stakeholders [...]

WHERE: Kingaroy CWA Hall WHEN: Tuesday 26 August 2008 TIME: 9.30am to 12.30pm.  Morning Tea Provided Change needs to be managed and conducted in appropriate sequence of steps to arrive at the desired outcome.  Many organisations embark on implementing a new organisation structure or a process yet do not succeed in imbedding it within the [...]

There’s a little something out there that’s earning a good reputation by destroying a plant we know all too well in the Burnett. The little critter is called the tingid bug and is causing strife for the Cats Claw Creeper in our riparian areas. Cats Claw Creeper (Macfadyena unguis-cati) has this amazing feature where it can attach [...]

The current BCCA Newsletter is now available for download: BCCA Newsletter 16 July 2008

  “For the word has passed around, the rain has fallen down, and has softened up the banks of the mighty Burnett ground. From far and wide the girls will glide, along the waters edge in search of a spot to lay their mighty eggs.”  It’ s all happening now, since the rain from the [...]

South Kolan played host to a group of concerned landholders, councillors and students as they gathered to learn more about the Burnett Cathcment’s threatened turtle species, the White Throated Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula). The highlight for the day was meeting one local resident, a White Throated Snapping Turtle who travelled with Duncan Limpus from the [...]