Tamar NRM Facilitator Wanted

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Tamar NRM Facilitator

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Ragwort Raids - Volunteers Needed...

Tamar NRM's needs volunteers for our annual Ragwort Raids on:

Saturday 23rd January 2010
East Tamar
9.00am - 12.00noon
Meet at Pipers River Fire Station
All volunteers to contact Jayne Shapter on 6394-4376
BBQ to follow

Further information here.

Sunday 24th January 2010
West Tamar
9.00am - 12.00noon
Meet at Winkleigh Hall, Winkleigh Road
All volunteers to contact Jayne Shapter on 6394-4376
BBQ to follow

Further information here.

UTAS Tamar Region: Creating a Sustainable Future (Forum) – Saturday 29th August 2009

Forum Program (PDF, 315 Kb)

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Community Consultation Forum – Saturday 15th August 2009

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2008-2013 Corporate Plan (PDF, 250Kb)

Boneseed Blitz 2008

Please click here for our 2008 Calendar of Activities. (PDF, 370 Kb)

Please click here for photos.

Save Energy & Water Competition

Tamar NRM’s Smart Living Working Group asks you……What can be done to save energy and water?

Read the information on the competition entry form and fill in the gaps to the questions. Correct answers will be placed in a prize draw.

Prizes include:

• An Energy Audit of your home – learn how well your home performs! (Energy Audit for Tamar Region only)
• A how-to book – discover how to improve your home’s performance!
• Practical products – to help you to take action!

A word version of the competition entry form is available by contacting Tamar NRM on 6323-3310.

Boneseed Blitz 2007

Tamar NRM is co-ordinating a Boneseed Blitz with activities to control this noxious weed. Activities run between the 6th to 14th October 2007 at Greens Beach, Beauty Point, Exeter, Hillwood, Riverside, Launceston, Swan Bay, George Town, Rosevears Drive and Lulworth.

Please click for the full calendar of activities. (PDF, 308 Kb)

If you are interested in volunteering and would like more information please contact the Tamar NRM office on 6323-3310.

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE - TAMAR NRM & GRAYSON LANDCARE, VIRGINIA, USA

Tasmania’s first International Landcare Sister Partnership

Tasmania’s leading land-care group, Tamar NRM, has signed the State’s first international sister Landcare partnership, with the U.S. group, Grayson LandCare of Virginia.

The partnership will be built on an exchange of information that will allow two dynamic and community-focused groups to benefit from the experience and expertise of each other.

The concept for this partnership arose from a chance meeting of Jerry Moles of the New River Land Trust, the facilitator of Grayson LandCare and Ian Sauer, President of Tamar NRM and Don Defenderfer (State Landcare Co-ordinator), while they were all presenting papers at the International Landcare Conference in Melbourne last year.

Sister Landcare Partnerships are nothing new for Tamar NRM which formed its first National Sister Landcare Partnership with the Woady Yaloak Landcare Group in Victoria last year, a partnership that has already produced significant benefits.

" This is an exciting time that puts a truly international flavour to Landcare that will allow two diverse groups to learn from each other," Ian Sauer said.

Jerry Moles of Grayson LandCare commented that, "With Landcare being new to the United States, it is great that we can learn from and exchange ideas with another dynamic and recognised group in a formal setting such as a Sister Landcare Partnership. This is a forward-looking partnership that reflects the global nature of resource management. Both groups can learn a great deal from each other that will add value to the agricultural sector, in particular."

Mr. Moles also noted that "Tamar NRM is at the leading edge of resource management and its achievements are impressive. While our environments are markedly different, the processes of organizing and assisting people in adapting to changing climatic conditions and recognizing new opportunities offer many avenues for co-operation."

As an early adopter of the LandCare model, the Grayson LandCare group is serving as a model for Landcare in the United States. In addition, Virginia Techological University, a major agricultural and natural resource management university, and a number of agencies of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia are actively assisting Grayson LandCare.

Mr Sauer reported that the two groups have already exchanged ideas and information that have revealed similarities in the issues both groups need to address.

" Exchange of information can save a great deal of time and therefore money. With the vegetation and climate challenges Australia faces, we’d be derelict in our duty not to pursue such partnerships and the benefits they promise the State," Mr Sauer said.

For further details:
Ian Sauer, President Tamar NRM 0407046347
Kay Bailey, Executive Officer, Tamar NRM 03 6323-3310
Mr Jerry Moles Facilitator of Grayson Landcare 0011-540-797-9531 or email: jmoles@igc.org

Public Forum- Footprints to a Sustainable Future

- a free public forum “Balancing conservation and Production: case studies from the real world”.

Tuesday 26June 2007
7.30pm
The Tramsheds, Inveresk - More info here

TAMAR NRM/UTAS CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE: "BIODIVERSITY: BALANCING CONSERVATION AND PRODUCTION – CASE STUDIES FROM THE REAL WORLD"

* EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES 27th APRIL *

Conference Dates: 26, 27 and 28 June 2007
Venue: UTAS, Launceston

Go to the website: www.conferenceplus.com.au/nrm
or for a copy of the registration brochure, telephone Tamar NRM on 6323-3310

Managing Your Bush - Field Day

Friday 20th April, Westbury. 10am - 3pm, lunch provided.

More info here, or please contact Amanda Bruce.

RAGWORT RAID - Volunteers needed

Tamar NRM and Temco are sponsoring two Ragwort Raids for the East and West Tamar.
The East Tamar Raid is on Saturday 3 February 2007 between 9.00am and 12.00noon with BBQ to follow.

The West Tamar Raid is on Saturday 10 February 2007 between 9.00am and 12.00noon with BBQ to follow.

Volunteers are needed to assist the local fire brigades remove this weed. If you are interested please contact Jayne Shapter on 6394-4376 for information and registrations.

2006 Boneseed Blitz Photos - please click here

June 2005

BIODIVERSITY LECTURES

Over sixty-five eager people from around the Launceston and regional areas attended Tamar NRM’s first Biodiversity lectures on Wednesday 20 April 2005. The first of the two guest speakers, Sarah Lloyd is a leading ornithologist and dedicated naturalist. Her credentials are undisputed well beyond her North East Tasmanian home area. Sarah presentation on "The Magic of Birds: reflections on the value and wonder of NE Tasmanian birds" included beautiful coloured photographs of bird species around North East Tasmania. Points made during her presentation were the decline in the robin population and the need for the community to view any species decline as a warning for the threat of extinction.

Our second speaker, David Lindenmayer presented "Birds, Biodiversity and implications for the Bottom Line". David is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU in Canberra and has been rated "Australia’s top innovative thinker in Environmental Science" (The Bulletin, October 2003). In 2004 he won the gold medal for the Australian Natural History Medal and also won the Earth Watch Institute’s ‘Outstanding Principal Investigator’ award. His presentation appealed to those searching for a scientifically authentic basis expressed in lay terms for all to understand. David called for a balance between the two Big E’s – Environment and Economics and pointed out ‘messy farms are important’ to protect the biodiversity of a property and the environment as a whole. David suggested stewardship awards from State Governments might be one way for the future to protect many species of flora and fauna.

Andrew and Carolyn Nichols, winners of the 2004 Rural Press Landcare Primary Producer Award, were in attendance and contributed to the group dialogue.

The audience was a mixed bunch from farmers to educators to resource managers and the general discussion after the presentation revealed the community feeling of the importance of biodiversity. There was a real commitment to identify problems and solve them as one person mentioned "before it was too late".

Based on the success of this night, Tamar NRM has decided to continue with a series of Biodiversity lectures. Keep an eye on the quarterly newsletter and our website in the future.