The Bowen-based
LDC Project support team
Management Support
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Coordinator - Rodger Walker
828 276
[email protected]
Pictured at an LDC workshop are (from
left): CEO NQ Dry Tropics, Dr Scott
Crawford, Director of the Office of the Great
Barrier Reef, Scott Robinson, Strathalbyn
grazier Bristow Hughes, Exevale grazier
Buster McLoughlin and Technical Science
Representative Christian Roth
Field Officer - Brendan Smith
S enior
- 0417 408 587
[email protected]
Officer - Adrienne Hall
F ield
(starts on June 4)
What is the LDC?
Q Dry Tropics’ Landholders Driving
N
Change project aims to tackle
erosion and improve land management,
productivity and Reef water quality in
the Burdekin region.
It is focused on the Bowen, Broken,
Bogie (BBB) catchment near Bowen and
Collinsville, which produces almost a
quarter of the total fine sediment load
that ends up on the Reef.
From the start, local graziers were
asked to get involved and put forward
ideas about how to keep soil on the
land and improve productivity.
THERE are five activity areas in the
Landholders Driving Change Project:
BBB Grazier Support, Landscape
Remediation, Influencing Other Land
Managers, Exploring New Incentives,
and Policy Engagement.
P2 | Grit Volume 1, May, 2018
Project Panel members
Bob Harris
Agforce Member Jane Waterhouse
Principal Scientist
Buster O’Loughlin
Exevale Station Christian Roth
Technical Science
rep
Garlone Moulin
Mt Pleasant
Station
Brigid Nelson
DAF rep
Tom Murphy
Tabletop Station Andrew Willcox
Whitsunday
Regional Council
Jessie Gooding
Mt Aberdeen
Station Meghan Blackburn
Office of Great
Barrier Reef
Bristow Hughes
Strathalbyn Station Scott Crawford
NQ Dry Tropics
The LDC project also benefits from
collaboration with the Department of
Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF), CSIRO,
JCU, TropWATER and Glencore.