This ‘3 Year Plan’ presents strategic direction to ensure Wheatbelt NRM effectively responds to national, state and regional NRM needs. This will be achieved by engaging our community to actively support and progress our strategic objectives. This ‘3 Year Plan’ is supported each year by an Operations Plan that sets out how resources will be allocated and utilised in progressing the strategic objectives in this document.
The Wheatbelt Regional NRM Strategy guides NRM investment priorities within the region. The regional community provided important guidance to the development of the strategy, which reflects their values and understanding of the environment they live in and know.
Australia has an incredible diversity of bird species, with 898 recorded, including vagrants or accidental visitors and introduced species. Of this total, Western Australia has 550 species, 17 of which are found only in Western Australia. The Avon River Basin has a remarkable 224 recorded species - over 25 percent of the national total.
Morgan Tirrana farms is a 14,600 hectare, mostly sheep country, property in Bencubbin. Hugh Morgan manages the property with his parents and wife Deanne.
Managing grazing pressure so that ground cover levels are maintained is hard enough when managing sheep, but when you throw cattle into the mix as well the challenge becomes even more complicated.
There are 160 naturally occurring eucalypts in the central Wheatbelt region, of which 32 are cultivated for various uses, including revegetation programs, oil extraction, floristry, and ornamental purposes.
The ABC Country Hour has highlighted the uptake of regenerative agricultural practices as farm businesses respond to consumers asking more about the story behind their food.
Landholders in the Talbot Brook and Boyagerring creek areas will be hearing from Wheatbelt NRM as we start a new project tackling waterways in the Avon.