Murrumbidgee Landcare e-news No.33 - October 2014

Farm Farm trip beefs up kids' ag experience - On Farm Round Robin

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NEWS

• Tracking Bunyip Birds crowdfunding success
• Farm trip beefs up kids' ag experience
• Costs and success of revegetation in Australia - questionnaire
• National Landcare Program summary report released
• Trees needing good home
• Creating Inspiring Rural Community Leadership and Engagement (CIRCLE)
• Your say - Agricultural Competitiveness Green Paper
• Survey - Verifying environmental and animal welfare credentials
• Be prepared - Climate change and the NSW bushfire threat
• 2014 Regional wellbeing survey
• 2014 National Landcare Conference reports

UPCOMING EVENTS

• “WiA Wool Power” - women’s twilight gathering - 1 Nov 2014
• Murrumbateman Landcare Group wildflower walk and bird walk - 2 Nov 2014
• How will river ecosystems weather global change? - 5 Nov 2014
• Gerogery NVT & agronomy field day - 6 Nov 2014
• Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists 20th Anniversary celebrations - 15 Nov 2014
• Yass Landcare Carp day - 7 Dec 2014
• Nature Conservation Council’s 10th Biennial Bushfire Conference - 26 May 2015

For more upper Murrumbidgee catchment events, see » ACT Landcare

FUNDING

• Small Environmental Grant Scheme - Norman Wettenhall Foundation
• EOI - Goldenfields Water County Council's Wildlife Corridors Project
• RE Ross Trust grants

FOR SCHOOLS

• On Farm Round Robin by Ted Wolfe
• National Recycling Week
• Expression of Interest - Primezone Partner Schools 2015
• 2014 Storybook garden competition (ACT region)

LANDCARE GROUP MEETINGS

• Queanbeyan Landcare - 4 November 2014
• Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare - 5 November 2014
• Murrumbateman Landcare - AGM - 6 November 2014
• Molonglo Catchment Group - 10 November 2014
• Kyeamba Valley Landcare Christmas party- 12 November 2014
• Bowning & Bookham District Landcare - 13 November 2014
• Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists - 15 November 2014
• Taylors Creek Landcare - 17 November 2013
• Tarcutta Valley Landcare - 18 November 2014
• Southern ACT Catchment Group - 25 November 2014
• Narrandera Urban Landcare - 25 November 2014
• Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare Committee - 2 December 2014

ADVOCACY

• Submissions - Australian government Senate committee on the National Landcare Program

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