Longwood Plains CMN Details
Facilitator: Jemma Norman
Description:
The Longwood Plains Conservation Management Network (LPCMN) aims to promote sustainable land practices that protect and enhance biodiversity within the Longwood Plains area of the Goulburn-Broken Catchment. Formed in 2012, the LPCMN encompasses an area of 140,000 hectares in roughly a triangle between Seymour, Murchison and Violet Town.
The LPCMN assists landowners to identify high priority environmental projects on their property, such as remnant native vegetation protection, wildlfife corridors and weed and pest control. Support includes site mapping, developing a management plan, record keeping and reporting.
Farm planning courses, tree planting days, field days and information events to promote sustainable farming practices, weed and feral animal control as well as property visits to assist landholders promote biodiversity are all part of what our organisation offers this area.
If you are interested in contacting this group or being involved in some of these initiatives, then please contact the Landcare Facilitator.
The Longwood Plains CMN at a glance in 2023/24
A motivated and connected community leads to positive change
The Longwood Plains CMN focussed on a Grey Box project, funded with money from the State Government, which provided support to attend property visits resulting in revegetation and regeneration of threatened flora species in the Longwood Plains area.
Longwood Plains CMN Case Study
The Grey Box project was established as part of a wider landscape project to improve the status of Grey Box Grassy Woodlands in the Goulburn Broken region. The Longwood Plains area identified by dryland farming and cropping enterprises, saw the opportunity to improve linkages acorss the landscape and increase the population of this threatened ecosystem. The wider vision is to link the Strathbogie hills to the plains of Longwood through revegetated and regenerated vegetation and biolinks.
The Grey Box project improves connections with farmers and landscapes. The Landcare project officer works with landholders to integrate biodiversity into the landscape and the importance of it within the farmland. Threatened species within the Longwood Plains region will be improved as a result of this project. Biolinks and roadside plantings will be enhanced with the overall vision planning to create better vegetation links throughout the landscape.
Whilst the next four years will be about increasing the number of landholders involved in, improving the revegetated area of the Longwood Plains by another 30 hectares. It would be valuable to incorporate education and extent of paddock trees and the importance of these in the system whilst out on the properties for landholders.