Bushfire Recovery
Starting on New Year’s Eve 2019, the Dunn’s Road and Green Valley fire burned 600 000 hectares across the Upper Murray and South West Slopes of NSW and NE Victoria. In NSW the communities of Batlow, Yaven Creek, Tumbarumba, Jingellic and Tumut were affected with properties, fencing and wildlife lost across the fire area. Mountain […]
Local Landcare
Local Landcare Coordinator The focus of The Murray Regional Landcare Facilitator Project is to engage Landcare and Producer Groups, support new groups and build capacity within existing groups that support sustainable farming and better environmental outcomes. There is a wonderful team of active volunteer and paid Landcare champions who all work together to promote and […]
Regional Landcare
Regional Landcare Coordinator (RLC) The focus of the Murray Regional Landcare Coordinator Project is to engage Landcare and Producer Groups, support Landcare Coordinators and new groups and build capacity within existing groups that support sustainable farming and better environmental outcomes. In the region there is a wonderful team of active volunteer and paid Landcare champions […]
Weather Stations
All of Australia’s 3G networks will shutdown by 30 June 2024, which means we need to upgrade our stations over the coming months if we want to keep them going. This will come at a significant cost, and we are currently exploring ways to pay for this. If you use our weather stations (and/or soil […]
Phosphorus Budgeting Tool
For many farming enterprises, the application of phosphorus fertiliser is one of the largest annual expenses. Holbrook Landcare Network, as part of the ‘Carbon Farming and Your Business’ project, has developed a phosphorus budgeting tool which can be used in conjunction with soil testing. An annual fertiliser plan and budget can be developed by using […]
HLN Acid Soils Strategy
2022 Producer Support Strategy Acid soils are common in high rainfall, productive soils throughout south-eastern Australia. Subsurface (5–20cm) soil acidity particularly is often undetected by traditional soil testing methods and ineffectively treated by traditional “rule of thumb” liming techniques. New research has identified that a mind-shift is needed across Industry in the detection and treatment […]
Holbrook Self Drive Ecotour
The Holbrook Landcare Network Self-drive Ecotour is a showcase of the work that landholders have done to address issues such as salinity, erosion, declining water quality and loss of biodiversity in the landscape. It is a way to see and experience the environmental benefits of Landcare and the highlights of the Holbrook region. The Holbrook […]
Refreshing the Upper Billabong
Refreshing the Upper Billabong is part of the Refreshing Rivers project, a collaboration between government, industry, research and community organisations, led by Murray Local Land Services. This project has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust. Refreshing Rivers has its own websitehttp://www.refreshingrivers.org.au to find out more Share your waterway flora […]
Soil Quality
Soil Quality and Health in Pasture Systems ‘Soil quality and health in pasture systems’ was a two year project funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. In this project, Holbrook Landcare Network developed benchmark and extension information on quality and health for our local soils. The aim was to increase the knowledge of managers […]
Acid Soils Program
The landscape of the Holbrook region broadly consists of undulating hills of Ordovician metasedimentary rocks and Silurian granites in the east, and flat to gently undulating alluvial floodplains of the Billabong Creek and its tributaries in the west. Major soil types are Kurosols (strongly acid duplex soils), Chromosols (duplex soils), Kandosols (structureless soils) and Dermosols […]