Having received some good interest from people at the workshop in Bungendore on 1 December, particularly from around Carwoola - Captain's Flat - Hoskinstown, the project team is now planning to hold the first MLC workshop in this area.

The details for the workshop are not yet finalised, but at this stage expect a 1-day workshop in the Captains Flat valley (ideally on the property of an interested landholder) in late April or early May. The workshop will help land managers to get a better understanding of native vegetation on their property, and also to look at managing it in the context of its connectivity to surrounding patches, through aerial photos and maps (which we will provide for all attendees) of native vegetation types across the landscape around their individual properties. There will also be sessions on Indigenous land management principles, and how people can begin to apply these on their property, if they are interested.

Interested in learning more about herbicide application?

Are you a landholder in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT?

Are you working with herbicides as a Park Carer/landcarer in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT? If you fall into any of these categories and want to upgrade your chemical application skills, ensure your machinery is working correctly, enable up to date records and gain accreditation or reaccreditation then read on.

Venue to be confirmed (RSVP by Friday 17th February)

(The location of this field day will depend on the locale of the majority of the particpants.)

Cost: $20 per person

Join Tanya Noakes, Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch Facilitator on a Platypus Spotting Walk on Saturday 6 August. The walk will be preceded by the launch of the Platypus Count monitoring program in the Cooma region.

For more information, see the attached flyer

NSA Upper Murrumbidgee Chapter is holding a Field Day at Brian and Marta Nancarrow's property on Crace Lane in the Brindabella Valley.

For more details, see the attached flyer.

Indigenous values workshops with Rod Mason

Frieinds of Grasslands have organised two workshops assisted by Geoffrey Simpson and Rod Mason and supported by Kosciuszko to Coast partnership and the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority.

Workshop 2: Resource flows in the landscape

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Indigenous values workshops with Rod Mason

Frieinds of Grasslands have organised two workshops assisted by Geoffrey Simpson and Rod Mason and supported by Kosciuszko to Coast partnership and the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority.

Workshop 1: Making string, glue and baskets

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Fenner School Public Seminar Series

Forestry Lecture Theatre (Bld 48)

Safe drinking water through Source Water Protection in the ACT

Lara Odell

Abstract:

Ensuring that the water which enters our treatment plants is of as high a quality as possible is recognised in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines as an important step in the provision of drinking water. The ACT's drinking water is drawn from several different catchments, both within and outside the Territory's borders, encompassing a wide range of different land uses.

The Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is inviting Request for Offers from suitably qualified providers for the delivery of the following activity:

Production of a plan to guide actions to improve water quality in the Upper Murrumbidgee River catchment.

The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) will be holding public meetings in Bredbo, Cooma and Numeralla, primarily to provide information about koala surveys to be undertaken in parts of the Southern Tablelands in the coming months and to recruit volunteers to assist with the surveys.

The Meetings are to be held at: