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Posted on 11 February, 2008
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA) has reported an outbreak of willow sawfly* in the region.The willow sawfly is an insect that feeds on willow trees** and large populations of the sawfly can actually kill the trees over ...
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Posted on 11 February, 2008
Landholders receiving almost $875,000 from the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA) to regenerate vegetation on their own land as part of the Bush Returns* Program are seeing results.An allowance to the value of $875,000 is ...
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Posted on 18 January, 2008
The Trout Cod population is growing in the Goulburn and Murray Rivers according to the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA).The findings from the GB CMA commissioned study show movement of key species between the Goulburn and ...
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Posted on 12 December, 2007
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA) has sighted a platypus at Jordan's Bend recently.GB CMA Ecologist Mr Keith Ward said that the Platypus is attracted to clean, slow flowing water so it is a good sign that the Goulburn ...
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Posted on 4 December, 2007
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority's (GB CMA) Drought Employment Program was so successful in 2007 that the whole state will model the program in 2008.The State Government has announced that all Victorian CMA's will implement the ...
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Posted on 29 November, 2007
A decade of sustainable water use will be fittingly celebrated at the juncture of the Goulburn and Broken rivers tomorrow. The Shepparton Irrigation Regional Implementation Committee's (SIRIC)* anniversary will also acknowledge the completion ...
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Posted on 27 November, 2007
The Goulburn Broken CMA has increased water flow in Broken Creek to save Murray Cod.An extremely low level of dissolved oxygen in the Broken Creek has been threatening the Murray Cod.Prolonged episodes of depressed dissolved oxygen concentrations ...
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Posted on 18 September, 2007
The Drought Employment Programme (DEP) formed the backbone of a recently completed initiative to plant 8000 indigenous seedlings along the Upper Broken River and the Blue Range and Bridge Creeks. The revegetation project replaced poisoned Willow ...
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Posted on 17 September, 2007
Flourishing levels of a tiny aquatic water fern, Azolla, might offer some farmers a viable new fodder resource in the Goulburn Broken catchment. The weed, which is also known as Duck Week, flourishes in drought conditions and is capable of ...
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Posted on 14 September, 2007
A safety net to avert the deaths of Murray Cod has been triggered by the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA). Officials say increased levels of the tiny aquatic water fern, Azolla (which is also known as Duck Weed) has ...
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