Grazier oversight keeps
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ever before has a project taken
such a wide-ranging approach
to improving land and water quality
at a catchment scale.
Strong and ongoing local
participation is the cornerstone of
the Landholders Driving Change
project (LDC).
As the name suggests, in order
for the project to be truly grazier-
focused, it was critical to involve
landholders from the start of the
design process.
As a result, fi ve local graziers who
have been there from the very start,
sit on the project panel to advise
and oversee the action plan.
A sixth grazier is on the
panel as the project’s Agforce
representative.
Their role is to make sure we
focus on land remediation and
management activities
that are relevant to
graziers. Thank you,
Bob Harris, the
project’s Agforce
representative,
and graziers Tom
Murphy, Garlone
Moulin, Jessie
Gooding, Buster
O’Loughlin and
Bristow Hughes,
for taking on this
important role, an
everybody on the
panel.
The LDC project
is also benefi ting
from collaboration
with the Department
of Agriculture
and Fisheries
(DAF), CSIRO, JCU,
TropWATER and
Glencore.
These organisations
offer expertise that will
help achieve our project
objectives.
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ANDREW YATES
LDC Project
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