Workshop

ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander , Cultural Centre, 245 Lady Denman Drive, Yarramundi Reach, ACT

Do you work or volunteer in the environment, NRM, Landcare or sustainability sectors? Do you spend some, or a lot of your time writing grants applications or supporting others to do so? Then this workshop is for you. Become a sophisticated, successful grant seeker and generate more income for your organisation.

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.

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

Murrumbateman Country Inn (RSVP by Friday 10th February)

Cost: $20 per person

This is the third of four community field days organised by the Molonglo Catchment Group with local landcare groups to provide valuable horse, pasture and weed management advice relevant to your property, to be presented by Jane Myers (expert on horse management) and Alison Elvin (local expert on weed and pasture management).

Michelago Community Hall (RSVP by Friday 20th January)

Cost: $20 per person

This is the second of four community field days organised by the Molonglo Catchment Group with local landcare groups to provide valuable horse, pasture and weed management advice relevant to your property, to be presented by Jane Myers (expert on horse management) and Alison Elvin (local expert on weed and pasture management).

Wamboin Community Hall (RSVP by Friday 20th January)

Cost: $20 per person

This is the first of four community field days organised by the Molonglo Catchment Group with local landcare groups to provide valuable horse, pasture and weed management advice relevant to your property, to be presented by Jane Myers (expert on horse management) and Alison Elvin (local expert on weed and pasture management).

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The Molonglo Catchment Group with local landcare groups have organised four community field days which provide valuable horse, pasture and weed management advice relevant to your property, to be presented by Jane Myers (expert on horse management) and Alison Elvin (local expert on weed and pasture management).

Seeing Grasslands is a project that aims to raise the profile of grasslands and to encourage an interest in this highly threatened ecosystem as well as in nature and photography through community participation, online initiatives and exhibition. It is funded by the 2010 ACT Environment Grants and is administered through the Molonglo Catchment Group. Other non-government groups involved in the project include Friends of Grasslands and Photoaccess.

A practical, hands‐on field day to answer your questions about:

• Identifying which plants are useful and which plants are weeds
• Distinguishing between native and introduced grasses
• Understanding what plants tell you about paddocks and landscapes

This is the third of three field days being run by the Molonglo and Ginninderra Catchment Groups with Jane Myers on Managing Horses on Small Properties as a follow-up from our very popular seminars with Jane earlier in the year. The days are being run with the assistance of the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country and ActewAGL.

The field days are: