The Grit October 2020 | Page 4

Chemical training delivered for the BBB
PATCHKEY an invaluable measuring tool
GRT Field Day focused on catchment solution
Check out the new-look streamlined website

Chemical training delivered for the BBB

Twenty-eight landholders , contractors and other land managers attended nationallyaccredited chemical training in Collinsville in September . The two workshops were organised in response to a request from the BBB community .

PATCHKEY an invaluable measuring tool

If you measure it , you can manage it . Developed by CSIRO , PATCHKEY is one monitoring tool used by NQ Dry Tropics , and the LDC project , to measure land condition in the Burdekin catchment .

GRT Field Day focused on catchment solution

L andholders of the Upper Broken River catchment are taking a

catchment-wide approach to manage giant rat ’ s tail ( GRT ) grass . A workshop was held last month to discuss the effectiveness of different management strategies being implemented .

Check out the new-look streamlined website

THE LDC website — find it at ldc . nqdrytropics . com — is always being

updated , and this month it has also had a makeover to improve navigation . Every month new stories , new photo galleries and information about new opportunities are posted . Make it a frequent stop-over when you ’ re online .
P4 | Grit Issue 22 , October , 2020