Landowners in the Mary River catchment are receiving help to improve the health of their properties under the “Better Catchments” program.

In the past few months, the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee has been busy working with landholders in the Upper Mary, Mary Valley, Kilkivan, Widgee and Gympie East districts to improve catchment health and on-farm sustainability.

The Committee’s program team has two main priorities:
1. Help implement improved soil management practices by targeting organic carbon, soil acidification and hillslope erosion.
2. Developing Property Pest Management Plans to tackle weeds.

Catchment Officer, Dale Watson, said that eighteen landholders have completed the pest management plans to improve their control of weeds like lantana and giant rat’s tail grass.

 

“We have also helped twenty-eight landholders to improve their soil health management,” he said.

Better Catchments is an initiative of the Burnett Mary Regional Group and funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments through ‘Caring for our Country’. 

Eligible landholders include commercial grazing enterprises to smaller grazing properties, horticulture enterprises and lifestyle blocks.

On-ground projects include strategic legume introduction, keyline ripping, sub-divisional fencing to grazing land type, hill-slope erosion fencing, landslip revegetation and fencing, riparian fencing and gully erosion fencing.

To apply, please contact Dale Watson, Catchment Officer, phone 07 5482 4766 or email mrcccdale@ozwide.net.au

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