Murrumbidgee Landcare e-news No.31 - August 2014

Schools Round Robin, 15 October 2014, for the Joining the dots project.

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NEWS

• Opportunity for Landcare input into Riverina LLS local strategic plan
• Soil biology workshop - call for expressions of interest
• Can a sheep farm be a biodiversity haven?
• National Landcare Programme consultation survey
• 25 years of Landcare grants - Media release
• Rural women encouraged to enter top award
• Harden Murrumburrah Landcare Award
• Has Silverleaf Nightshade been a nightmare to control on your farm?
• 2014 National Landcare People’s Choice Award
• Sustainability survey

UPCOMING EVENTS

• State of native plants in the ACT - 20 August
• Gang-Gang survey - August muster count - 21 August 2014
• National Food and Farming Forum - 21 August 2014
• Opportunity for Landcare input into Riverina LLS local strategic plan - 21 August 2014
• Wattle Day Walks - Young & Grenfell - 22 August 2014
• National Landcare Conference earlybird registration - 25 August 2014
• 2014 Australian Controlled Traffic Farming Conference - 26 August 2014
• Carbon Market Institute Information session - Dubbo - 26 August 2014
• Yass Landcare Wetlands Walk at 'Nanima Gold' - 31 August 2014
• 19th Australasian Weeds Conference - 1 September 2014
• Box Thorn field day Hay - 2 September 2014
• Silver Leaf Nightshade workshop - 2 September 2014
• South East Landcare Muster - 2 September 2014
• Cropping & pasture systems field day - 3 September 2014
• Spring Farming Forum - Temora - 5 September 2014
• Bushcare's Major Day Out - 7 September 2014
• Murray Darling Basin Plan community meeting - Griffith - 11 September 2014
• 5th National Malleefowl Forum - 12 September 2014
• NSW Rural Women's Gathering - 12 September 2014
• Spring Campout to Hunthawang National Park
• Yass Landcare Soil Biology Workshop - 14 September 2014
• South East LLS local customer forum - 16 September 2014
• 2014 National Landcare Conference & awards - 17-19 September 2014
• Biodiversity survey - Kajuligah Nature Reserve - 20 September 2014
• Henty Machinery Field Days - 23 September 2014
• Murrumbateman Field Days - 18 October 2014
• Friends of Grasslands conference - 30 October 2014

For more upper Murrumbidgee catchment events, see » ACT Landcare

FUNDING

• Funding to attend National Landcare Conference
• Keep NSW Beautiful - Community Litter Grants - 29 August 2014
• Restoration and rehabilitation grants - 19 September 2014
• Saving Our Species partnership grants - 29 September 2014
• RAS Foundation Rural Scholarships - 30 September 2014
• RE Ross Trust grants
• Funding to support Landcare groups
• Crowdfunding - The Landcare & Environment Collection

FOR SCHOOLS

• Keep Australia Beautiful week - 19 August 2014
• Cool Australia's Enviroweek - 25 August 2014
• National Biodiversity Month - September 2014
• Schools Round Robin - 15th October 2014
• The Matrix in Ecology - animation

LANDCARE MEETINGS

• Taylors Creek Landcare Group - 18 August 2013
• Tarcutta Valley Landcare - 19 August 2014
• Bowning & Bookham District Landcare Group - 21 August 2014
• Southern ACT Catchment Group - 26 August 2014
• Narrandera Urban Landcare - 26 August 2014
• Binalong Landcare - 1 September 2014
• Queanbeyan Landcare - 2 September 2014
• Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare - 3 September 2014
• Molonglo Catchment Group - 8 September 2014
• Kyeamba Valley Landcare - 10 September 2014
• Yass Area Network - AGM - 11 September 2014
• Tarcutta Valley Landcare - 16 September 2014
• Southern ACT Catchment Group - 23 September 2014
• Narrandera Urban Landcare - 23 September 2014
• Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc AGM - 28 October 2014

NEWSLETTERS

• Landcare Support NSW news
• The Murrumbidgee Naturalist - the newsletter of the Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists
• WAG tales - newsletter of the Lachlan Fold Wildlife Action Group
• The Weed's News Digest