Riverina Highlands Landcare Network

The Riverina Highlands Landcare Network (RHLN) is a grass roots umbrella organisation representing landcare, landholders and the general community in the Tumut, Adelong, Gundagai and Batlow region.

»	contact RHLN [1]
»	Landcare Nursery [2]
»	Riverglade Wetlands Project [3]

http://www.riverinahighlandslandcare.com.au/ [4]

The Riverina Highlands area is geographically diverse ranging from sub alpine areas north of Kosciusko National Park [5] through to grazing and grain belts on the south west slopes. The main natural resource issues affecting the region include:

Declining water quality due to willow encroachment, stock access and stream bank erosion
Declining soil fertility associated with problems such as acid soils, gully erosion & dryland salinity
Weed invasion especially from Blackberries, St Johns Wort and Paterson's Curse
Native vegetation decline
Drought and climate change

Prograze workshop The RHLN is supporting landholders and Landcare members to address these problems through:

organising collaborative projects
seeking resources, such as funding, to undertake on ground works
improving landholders' skills and knowledge through a regular newsletter, field days, information nights and training days
hosting an annual dinner
managing a community Nursery

The RHLN has 3 key objectives:

to protect and enhance the Riverina Highlands landscape
to support Landcare Members
to encourage involvement in Landcare by the Riverina Highlands community.

The RHLN is supported by an Executive Committee. For further information contact:

Chair, Riverina Highlands Landcare Network - Nick Austin, Email: nick.austin@bigpond.com [6]
Land Services Officer (Riverina LLS) - Cherie White, 6941 2253, cherie.white@lls.nsw.gov.au [7]