National Jarlmadangah WA Derby Jarlmadangah Burru This NLP Smart Farms project builds on the positive $93,518.00 Landcare Burru Aboriginal Community outcomes from the JBAC Green Army project teams who Program - Aboriginal Revegetation Nursery constructed a Revegetation Nursery within the Smart Farms Corporation Capacity Building Jarlmadangah Burru Aboriginal Community and set up the Small Grants Project infrastructure to grow local provenance plants for revegetation, and to develop the horticulture skills of the community youth. Stage 1 provided JBAC with an operational nursery facility as well as initial horticulture training with support from Lotterywest, Royalties for Regions / NRM WA, Norman Wettenhall Foundation, along with corporate in-kind from Triple BL Pty and Okara Pty Ltd. The Smart Farms grant will move the project into stage 2 - operationalizing the nursery and developing the Jarlmadanga community's capacity to run the nursery on a part-time basis with a production capacity of 5,000 local provenance native plants per annum, which will be used to revegetate degraded areas of the Fitzroy River floodplain. National Local Land NSW Moruya Protecting pasture Many properties in the Eurobodalla contain significant $97,371.00 Landcare Services integrity, significant remnants of the nationally listed Coastal Saltmarsh (TEC) Program - wetlands and aquatic and state listed Swamp Oak Forest (EEC). These vegetation Smart Farms ecosystems from the communities and adjoining paddocks are often actively Small Grants impact of Spiny Rush managed pastures for livestock production. A key threatening process to the biological integrity of these vegetation communities, pasture productivity and animal health is the increasing threat of invasion by the weed Spiny Rush (Juncus acutis). Most landholders in the south east are unaware of the existence of Spiny Rush and its threats. LLS have developed best management methods through trial to treat the weed whilst taking into account the sensitive adjacent environments including oyster leases, marine parks and wetlands. This project will map population distribution on properties across the Moruya, Clyde and Tomaga River floodplains and begin initial treatment of the weed and build capacity of farmers and the community to best manage the weed.
National Landcare Program - Smart Farms Small Grants Jarlmadangah Burru Aboriginal Corporation WA Derby Jarlmadangah Burru Aboriginal Community Revegetation Nursery Capacity Building Project This NLP Smart Farms project builds on the positive outcomes from the JBAC Green Army project teams who constructed a Revegetation Nursery within the Jarlmadangah Burru Aboriginal Community and set up the infrastructure to grow local provenance plants for revegetation, and to develop the horticulture skills of the community youth. Stage 1 provided JBAC with an operational nursery facility as well as initial horticulture training with support from Lotterywest, Royalties for Regions / NRM WA, Norman Wettenhall Foundation, along with corporate in-kind from Triple BL Pty and Okara Pty Ltd. The Smart Farms grant will move the project into stage 2 - operationalizing the nursery and developing the Jarlmadanga community's capacity to run the nursery on a part-time basis with a production capacity of 5,000 local provenance native plants per annum, which will be used to revegetate degraded areas of the Fitzroy River floodplain. $93,518.00 National Landcare Program - Smart Farms Small Grants Local Land Services NSW Moruya Protecting pasture integrity, significant wetlands and aquatic ecosystems from the impact of Spiny Rush Many properties in the Eurobodalla contain significant remnants of the nationally listed Coastal Saltmarsh (TEC) and state listed Swamp Oak Forest (EEC). These vegetation communities and adjoining paddocks are often actively managed pastures for livestock production. A key threatening process to the biological integrity of these vegetation communities, pasture productivity and animal health is the increasing threat of invasion by the weed Spiny Rush (Juncus acutis). Most landholders in the south east are unaware of the existence of Spiny Rush and its threats. LLS have developed best management methods through trial to treat the weed whilst taking into account the sensitive adjacent environments including oyster leases, marine parks and wetlands. This project will map population distribution on properties across the Moruya, Clyde and Tomaga River floodplains and begin initial treatment of the weed and build capacity of farmers and the community to best manage the weed. $97,371.00
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