Research

African Lovegrass (ALG) is a highly invasive environmental and agricultural weed in the region.

Redgrass African lovegrass mix.

‘Living with Lovegrass’ a forum designed around learning from each other on how to manage African Lovegrass was held at the Namadgi Visitor Centre on Saturday 22nd May.

Around sixty people attended the forum and it was interesting to hear the range of views expressed about lovegrass. Some graziers expressed the view that lovegrass is here, cattle can use it, so perhaps we are better off devoting resources to Serrated Tussock. Others thought that lovegrass is potentially our worst environmental and agricultural weed species. Whatever the view there is no denying African lovegrass is a highly persistent, summer growing, perennial grass weed that is invading rural properties, urban parklands and roadsides and nature reserves across our region.

Do you have skills identifying native and exotic groundlayer plants? Would you like to be part of study program for the Pinnacle Nature Reserve?

Do you have skills identifying native and exotic groundlayer plants? Would you like to be part of study program for the Pinnacle Nature Reserve?

The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) is leading the Australian research community in a national interdisciplinary effort to generate the information needed by decision-makers in government and in vulnerable sectors and communities to manage the risks of climate change impacts.

Linear Reserves

Connecting Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes

Presentations at DEWHA, 33 Allara St, Canberra City (in the large amenities room).

Rural lifestyle landowners occupy peri-urban areas—the non-urban landscape close to urban or regional centres. These landowners do not derive their living directly from their properties as they have chosen these locations essentially for lifestyle purposes. Because the rural lifestyle is increasingly popular, the landowners are key stakeholders in future landscape management.

Join Sarah Ryan ACT NRM Chair and Lee O'Brien Murrumbidgee CMA Chair at the launch of three long awaited UMCCC publications:

Look After Your Natural Assets (3rd Edition)

Willow Management - A Strategy for the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment

Peri-urban Weed Management Study

Where: Queanbeyan Conference Centre, 253 Crawford St Queanbeyan
When: 11 am
11 August 2010, followed by lunch

RSVP to Pauline Carder, UMCCC Coordinator
Phone: 6207 2999
Email: pauline.carder@act.gov.au