NEWS + STORIES 2020
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Expressions of Interest will soon be open for GLENRAC’s Bushfire Recovery Project, which is funded through the Northern Tablelands Local Land Services and NSW government. The grant aims to assist individuals and community groups within 50km of Glen Innes to complete small on-ground works in the recovery from the 2019/2020 bushfires, as well improving future preparedness of landholders and/or communities in the event of similar circumstances.
A year months on from the bushfires which devastated the region and Northern Tablelands Local Land Services is continuing to provide assistance to impacted landholders, with Minister for Agriculture and State MP Adam Marshall today announcing the launch of Bushfire Recovery Small On-farm Grants.
GLENRAC recently received a delivery of pet food donated by RSPCA NSW Glen Innes Volunteer Branch from Coles Forest Lake Warehouse in Brisbane and organised by Manager of Coles Glen Innes, Natasha Miles and Glen Innes RSPCA volunteer, Brigitte Burridge.
The New England and North West Landcare Awards will return in early 2021 and nominations for the event are now open! Landcare is urgently appealing to farmers, conservationists, volunteers and families to nominate a person or group from the region who is passionate about conserving the natural environment and/or sustainable, regenerative farming systems.
Northern Tablelands Local Land Services (LLS) has urged farmers to be on the lookout for signs of fall armyworm (FAW) following the detection of multiple moths around Inverell. LLS Pastures Agronomist, Georgie Oakes, said while this is one of the first detections in the Northern Tablelands, it is likely more cases of FAW will be reported over summer.
Deane Smith has been busy in the years since graduating from Glen Innes High School back in 2010, earning himself a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Zoology and Genetics), and an Honours in Ecology from the University of New England, before commencing a PhD in molecular ecology as part of the Wildlife Research Group at the University of Southern Queensland – a research project that leads Deane to some of the most remote outback landscapes in Australia.