Rangelands NRM
2009 - ongoing
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Through Gascoyne Catchments Groups ongoing relationship with Rangelands NRM we have been able to delivery a large number of projects and leverage additional funding. Rangelands NRM has played a key role in the development of the Rangelands Monitoring Tool, various State NRM Grants, most recently helping with Future Drought Fund applications and the Gascoyne River Catchment project. Some of the project/programs delivered include:
Dynamic Nutritional Mapping & Grazing Management (2023-2024)
Gascoyne Catchments Group worked with Rangelands NRM to provide support working with pastoralists to optimise healthy landscape and livestock in the rangelands. In November 2023, a workshop was delivered in Coral Bay by Cibo Labs, providing training and insights into their online pasture management tool.
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Gascoyne River Catchment Project (2022-2025)
Gascoyne Catchments Group with the support of Rangelands NRM was awarded funding from the Gascoyne Development Commission for this project. With their support we we're able to delivery a presentation on the catchment wide survey, allowing stakeholders within the catchment to ask questions and better understand how the project will be delivered.
Their support was circuital to the development of the project and ongoing delivery of the project over the coming two years.
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GCG Annual Pastoral Forum (2018-2023)
Gascoyne Catchments Group Annual Pastoral Forum has been long support by Rangelands NRM. Through this support, over the last 5 years the forum has successfully drawn an every increasing number of attendees, key presenters and provides a great opportunity for attendees to learn not only from the presentations but from other in attendance. Rangelands NRM has been key in ensuring the success of this annual event.
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Building Pastoral Resilience to Climate Change (2016-2019)
Gascoyne Catchments Group worked to support pastoralists in the Gascoyne to improve the health and resilience of the environment through the development of a rangeland rehydration/restoration plan and the implementation of on-ground works. The plan will include strategic direction for remediation techniques to restore surface water flow, improve water infiltration, increase vegetation growth and reduce sediment runoff. Station staff will also be upskilled in how to best use earth working machinery to implement the plan by learning from experts who have spent their entire lives refining leading practice. We will also facilitate industry-wide learning through field days and demonstrations which will include presentations on managing grazing pressure and setting up station-wide monitoring to determine project success. The distribution of fact sheets and case studies will also improve understanding of and confidence in rehydration works among the broader industry.
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Land Remediation Workshop and Improved Land Management/Practise Chang (2018-2019)
Gascoyne Catchments Group worked to delivery support to three pastoral properties to identify key locations for land remediation on their pastoral leases. With the aid of Richard Marver from Contour Consulting each participant benefited from one of one, in field time to discuss their concerns and ways to improve their identified sites. Richard also delivery a workshop during the GCG Annual Pastoral Forum outlining to those in attendance how best to read their landscapes.
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Sustainable Production and Managing Rangeland Condition in the Central Rangelands
Through this project Gascoyne Catchments Group was able to develop and improve the Rangelands Monitoring Tool.
