• Revegetation of perennial grasses across 180ha of the gully-contributing subcatchments , including the use of planned grazing for improved botanical composition and ground cover of pastures ( project total of 480ha ).
• Managing road and fence line drainage ( project total of 5km ), installing runoff diversion banks or contour ripping and fencing ( project total of 50ha ), as suitable for specific sites .
Objective 4 : Monitor , document and communicate .
In collaboration with DAF , a biophysical monitoring program was implemented to better understand the impacts of initial trial site treatments ( two sites at Tabletop Station and two sites at Strathalbyn Station ).
Objective 5 : Provide training opportunities for graziers .
Deliver a suite of training and extension activities to encourage graziers to better understand the economic , production and environmental advantages of specific management actions to remediate gullies and improve landscape resilience , and to undertake on-ground activities to address erosion features in the landscape .
Holistic Management educators Brian Wehlburg ( Inside Outside Management ) and Dick Richardson ( Grazing Naturally ) were the principal extension deliverers . Support was provided by DAF officers Bob Shepherd ( Charters Towers ), Jim Fletcher ( Mackay ) and Paul Jones ( Emerald ), and Raymond Stacey ( Resource Consulting Services ).
A target total of 16 workshop and field events were delivered as part of the extension program .
Project monitoring
A range of monitoring techniques were used for the project based on the Gully and Streambank Toolbox , a technical guide for gully and stream bank erosion control programs in Great Barrier Reef catchments .
A range of techniques were used at each project site based on site characteristics and scope of implementation , landholder requirements and cooperation , and proportionate to the budget and expenditure for each site .
Monitoring tools included :
• Rainfall .
• Livestock movements at most sites .
• Annual photo-point monitoring .
• Erosion pins and concrete pavers .
• Land condition assessment at selected sites through PATCHKEY ( Abbott and Corfield , 2006 ; Corfield et al ., 2006 ) - dominant functional vegetation group , biomass , cover , basal area and landscape condition estimate .
• Remote sensing tools such as : o high resolution LiDAR ; o dynamic reference cover model data ; o VegMachine ; and o Forage .
Graziers , scientists , field officers and industry consultants at a Strathalbyn field day in May , 2019 .
Executive Summary — P7