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• Natural assets of our region

Our programs

• Biodiversity

  • Protecting pristine places

  • Learning in the great outdoors

  • Recovering rainforest at Ourimbah Creek

  • Protecting our precious bushland

  • Taking on the African Olive invasion in Maitland

  • Protecting the precious Persoonia

• Aquatic health

  • Wollombi landholders encouraged to 'snoop and scoop' for Salvinia

  • Saving the earth at Cundle Flat

  • Bringing the birds back to Dooralong

  • Copy of Improvements designed to Last

  • Improvements designed to Last

  • Great news for the gudgeons of Goorangoola Creek

  • The big bug survey

  • Turning the Pages River

  • Bringing back the fish

  • Farming for the future

• Soils

  • Strategic grazing in the Manning Valley

  • Partners in preserving our soil

  • Rehabilitating the 'Grand Canyon'

  • Stopping salinity in its tracks

  • Managing salinity for the long term

• Estuaries

  • Protecting our coastal hot spots

  • High rains but no high tides in Hexham Swamp

  • Aboriginal Land Management Teams breaking new ground

  • Partnerships producing healthier wetlands

• Wetlands

  • Rehabilitating Hexham Swamp

  • Hexham Swamp

    • Creek bank survey shows little erosion from floodgates

    • Hexham Swamp bird survey

    • From one wetland to the next

    • New members for Hexham Swamp–Kooragang Wetland Rehabilitation Projects Steering Committee

    • Top international fishers visit Hexham Swamp and Kooragang Wetlands

    • Ironbark Creek floodgates, a boot and the Archibalds

    • Aerial monitoring at Hexham Swamp

    • Hexham Swamp Stage 3 Progress

    • Fewer mosquitoes in Hexham Swamp this summer

    • Latham's snipe

    • Three more floodgates opened at Hexham Swamp

    • Three more floodgates opened at Hexham Swamp

    • Celebrating World Rivers Day at the International Riversymposium

    • Three more floodgates opened at Hexham Swamp

    • Stage 2 progress

• Marine areas

  • Completing the picture of our rocky reefs

  • New lease of life for sanctuary zone

  • Forster a favourite with the black cod

  • Discovering the depths of our marine habitat

Funding and support

• 2011-12 Newcastle Community Groups Sponsorship Program

• Community Network Support | CLOSED

• Communities Caring for Catchments | CLOSED

• Partnerships Program

• Improving biodiversity, rivers and wetlands

• Improving soil health and increasing soil carbon

• Addressing soil erosion and salinity

• 2012-13 Incentives Program FAQs

• Improving Tuggerah Lakes catchment | CLOSED

• Environmental Management Systems Program 2011/12

• 2012-13 Sponsorship Program | ALL PROGRAMS NOW CLOSED

• Improving biodiversity, rivers and wetlands

• Addressing soil erosion and salinity

• Improving soil health and increasing soil carbon

• Improving water quality in the Great Lakes

• Promoting partnerships

• Communities Caring for Catchments

• Community Network Support

• Getting assistance

  • Managing native vegetation

    • Conserving ancient rainforest

    • Protecting their patch

• Developing skills and knowledge

  • Supporting Aboriginal students for a future in NRM

• Funding opportunities

  • 2010-12 Caring for Our Coast program (Stage 2)

  • 2010-11 Partnerships Program

  • 2010-11 Community Network Support Program

  • 2010-11 Communities Caring for Catchments Program

• Project resources

  • On-ground Works Safety Risk Assessment

  • Developing a project contract with the CMA

  • Monitoring and reporting

  • Invoicing the CMA

  • Engaging Aboriginal Land Management Teams

  • Sourcing local provenance tubestock

Media and publications

• Newsletters

• News stories

  • Tomago Wetlands project receives prestigious award

  • Community Reference Group (CRG) meeting with a difference!

  • Funding announcement welcomed

  • Board member's term extended

  • 'Mash' your Landcare passion

  • SCU researcher awarded for coastal science

  • Cleaning up Lake Macquarie

  • Marine debris – we’re all part of the solution!

  • Up and coming natural resource managers take to the field

  • Students take scientific sojourn along Throsby Creek

  • African Olive mapping in the Hunter Catchment

  • Free pasture cropping and soil health workshop in Merriwa

  • Great Lakes community getting involved in marine citizen science

  • Message in a bottle tells the tale of a catchment

  • Dung beetle and lantana field days announced for Dungog

  • ‘Ghost’ fishing traps a threat to waterways

  • FREE lantana control field day in Port Stephens

  • Farewell to board members

  • Minister approves catchment action plan

  • Hunter LLS workshops well attended

  • Bateau Bay Community Garden Open Day

  • App for Maitland flood tours

  • Get involved in marine citizen science

  • Successful field day in Maitland Vale

  • More time to recognise catchment champions

  • Students get creative to help the Paterson and Allyn rivers

  • Gundy fugitives foiled by fence

  • How did you get the message?

  • Looking for something to do over the school holidays?

  • Local landholders experience a hands-on, in depth look at their local catchment

  • One person’s trash is another’s treasure

  • Find out why your catchment matters this Tocal Field Days

  • Kooragang Wetlands and the Macquarie Collector’s Chest

  • Gloucester graziers tour the Northern Rivers

  • Reducing bycatch with technology

  • Hinton Spillway in action during Paterson River flood

  • Discover the secrets of our oceans and coasts

  • Sponsorship funds still available

  • NSW Landcare & CMA Forum Call for Abstracts

  • Local Land Services Hunter workshops

  • Soil savvy in the Upper Hunter

  • FREE outdoor screening of Bag It – postponed until Saturday 27 April

  • The search is on for the endangered Bush Stone-curlew

  • Schools go 'binless'

  • FREE African Olive and Lantana control workshop

  • Hunter River flood a timely reminder

  • Trees of cultural significance get a helping hand

  • Fishing line taking toll on local shorebirds

  • Calling all catchment champions

  • Aerial view of Hexham Swamp

  • Local Land Services update

  • DPI recruitment begins

  • A passionate story

  • The value of shells on the beach

  • Prepare for flooding on anniversary of the 1955 flood in Maitland

  • Profitable pasture course in Upper Hunter

  • Project Aware - FREE Marine Course coming to a place near you!

  • Fire and rain no barrier to Kooragang Wetlands volunteers

  • A FREE open air experience in Terrigal

  • Volunteer for Clean Up Australia Day – Sunday 3 March

  • Marine Discovery Series explores sustainable seafood

  • Kooragang Wetlands volunteer wins WetlandCare Art Competition

  • Groups unite in efforts to protect Pelican Island Nature Reserve

  • Project Aware - FREE Marine Course coming to a place near you!

  • Bush Stone-curlew information session

  • Local Land Services workshops

  • Sponsorship funding for local groups and networks

  • Don’t miss Scott Bevan’s Hunter River journey on ABC TV

  • Need help writing grant applications?

  • Workshop on improving soil health

  • Tour retraces the path of destruction of 1955 flood in Maitland

  • Marine Discovery Series explores sustainable seafood

  • World Wetlands Day celebrates wetlands from the Hunter to Japan

  • Minister Parker inspects Hinton Spillway

  • Thornton Public School keeps up the good work

  • Catchment action plan update

  • Panel announces final draft of Local Land Services boundaries

  • Hot days, cold surf and the East Australian Current

  • Grant funding to protect bushland

  • The 12 Do’s of Christmas

  • War against litter

  • Local groups unite in the fight to conquer marine litter

  • Endangered Snipe in Hexham Swamp

  • The grass is always greener…

  • Keeping the ‘P’ out of local waterways

  • Flood Mitigation works continue in the Upper Hunter

  • Regenerating riparian vegetation can make a big difference

  • Marine Discovery Series – Find us on Facebook!

  • Draft boundaries announced for LLS

  • The hidden green treasures of our region

  • It's Phosphorus Awareness Week across the region

  • Friends of the Bush Stone-curlew keep count

  • Catchment action plan on public exhibition

  • Got an activity in mind for your riverbank?

  • Nurturing nature with our children

  • Upper Manning graziers plan a look over the fence

  • Marine debris – we’re all part of the solution

  • Improving soil health for sustainable properties

  • Free sites available at Tocal Field Days 2013

  • Move over October, it’s ‘MERvember’

  • Welcome the shorebirds at Stockton Sandspit

  • A snapshot of recent Upper Hunter projects

  • Dung beetles saving our soils

  • Feral animal control training for Tuggerah Lakes Catchment landholders

  • Improving Spring pastures and catchment health

  • New land management agency announced

  • A little patch of paradise

  • Look out for weeds!

  • Opening the gate to the Victoria Hotel's riverbank

  • Application deadline extended

  • New soil carbon workshop date announced

  • Tool on loan to remove woody weeds

  • A field day in the war on African Olive

  • CMA’s marine debris project moving forward

  • CMA seeking Landcare forum organiser

  • Learn about sustainable and profitable farming in Wollombi

  • Black Cod babies no longer in the dark

  • Tour tells of Central Maitland’s flood history

  • Final round of funding for Tuggerah Lakes Catchment landholders

  • Latham’s Snipe arrival in time for Threatened Species Day

  • Major marine debris project gets the nod

  • CMA board tours Lower North Coast

  • Soil health for sustainable farms

  • Soil health for sustainable farms

  • Community reference groups have their say

  • Sustainable farming - Making it work for you!

  • Central Coast office moves to Wyong

  • Congratulations to Budgewoi Beach Dunecare!

  • Successful Incentive Program’ applicants attend workshops

  • Hunter farmers going digital

  • Ray David Galway - Volunteer from Palmgrove-Ourimbah Landcare

  • Best practice for wet pastures

  • Volunteers at Kooragang Wetlands receive funding to increase skills

  • CMA Board out and about in the Manning

  • Pasture to Pocket program for a sustainable and profitable grazing business

  • The weather is fine for bitou spraying

  • Partnership protects endangered bushland

  • Opportunities for community members to attend National Landcare Conference

  • Live fast, die young - life in the fast lane for a squid

  • Our natural resource future in the planning

  • Farm planning lays a foundation for innovation

  • Platypus Festival - ‘P.A.C.T. with the Devil’

  • Waterwatch takes a “Whole-of-Catchment” approach in Gorokan

  • Enhancing soil health and productivity on steep grazing lands

  • Volunteers helping to care for our coast

  • Saving important habitat for the endangered Bush Stone-curlew

  • Massive win for the Palm Grove-Ourimbah Landcare Group

  • Free soil carbon workshops

  • Feral dog eradication helps protect native flora and fauna

  • Regenerating littoral rainforest at Saltwater National Park

  • Netting plenty of bugs at children’s discovery day

  • Sign up now for sustainable land management training with the CMA!

  • A solution to a problem on the urban fringe

  • Great crowds at the Whale Dreamers Festival – Norah Head

  • Planting trees to save birds at Coorumbine Creek Pt Clare

  • Free recycling of silage plastic and baling twine on lower north coast

  • Locals getting busy along Ironbark Creek

  • June 2012 Board Meeting

  • Hear about new draft Native Vegetation Regulation in Scone

  • The drain is just for rain

  • A clean bill of health for platypus habitat

  • Mid North Coast community meetings to discuss weeds

  • CMA Board inspects recent works in the Lower Hunter

  • Yamuloong - more than a training facility!

  • Social Media Training

  • Brisbane Water students inspired to Take 3

  • Is there platypus at your place?

  • Draft native vegetation regulation released

  • Copy of Copy of Draft native vegetation regulation released

  • SustainED at Cattai

  • New soils mapping for Hunter-Central Rivers region

  • Successful field day in Goorangoola catchment

  • Is your life too plastic?

  • Weed control techniques explained

  • Local students get hands-on along Hunter River

  • CMA Board out and about in Lake Macquarie

  • Property planning to improve productivity

  • Natural Resources Commission Visit

  • Get creative with your rock pool critters!

  • Five year anniversary of the June 2007 flood in Maitland

  • CMA May Board meeting

  • Carbon workshop for Tuggerah Lakes landholders

  • Funding available for rural landholders in the Tuggerah Lakes catchment

  • Media Training for Landcare and Community Groups working in Natural Resource Management

  • An unpalatable pest to be tackled at Goorangoola Field Day

  • Neighbours working together to prepare for fire

  • Is your life too plastic?

  • Funding available for Newcastle community groups

  • Crocs, fish, bugs and birds at free family festival on Ash Island

  • The community of Goorangoola gains ground on African Olive

  • Improving pastures and catchment health

  • Soil inhabitants uncovered

  • Weed identification and control workshop

  • Students inspired to Take 3

  • Going ‘binless’ on 8 March

  • From cattle stomping ground to quality riparian rainforest

  • Assistance is available from the Catchment Management Authority for natural resource projects

  • Fewer mosquitoes in Hexham Swamp this summer

  • Reviewing the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan

  • Water quality benefits to flow from upper catchment management

  • Local identities will continue to represent our region

  • Hexham and Kooragang Wetland Projects on Display for World Wetlands Day

  • Reliving flood memories in Maitland – tours to commemorate anniversary of the 1955 flood

  • Copy of Reliving flood memories in Maitland – tours to commemorate anniversary of the 1955 flood

  • New Board member appointed to the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority

  • Wetland activities in school holidays

  • Gloucester graziers tour the New England

  • New Chair appointed to the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority

  • Is your life too plastic?

  • Wetland activities in school holidays

  • ‘Wootton you’ want to learn about controlling weeds on your river frontage?

  • Tree suppliers wanted

  • Free sites available at Tocal Field Days 2012

  • Reviewing the Native Vegetation Regulation

  • Great Lakes locals taking care of their backyard

  • Pam’s labour of love

  • Seeking applications for a new Board member

  • NSW Government listening on Native Vegetation laws in Maitland

  • Welcome the Shorebirds at Stockton Sandspit

  • Celebrating National Water Week

  • Discover why we are drowning in a plastic soup

  • Getting to grips with Great White Sharks

  • Three more floodgates opened at Hexham Swamp

  • Congratulations to our Landcare Legends

  • Community invited to have their say

  • Book sheds light on the Hunter Valley’s past and future flood risk

  • Catchment Management Authority Board in Goulburn River catchment

  • Scenes of raging floodwaters at Maitland Station relived in tour of 1955 flood

  • Keeping in touch on pastures and profits

  • Pulling together to protect our tiny tourists

  • Discover the shore birds of the Manning

  • Unique soft coral habitats discovered in Port Stephens

  • One stop shop for marine information

  • Dairy farmers looking after their own backyard

  • Local students crawl the Williams River

  • Champions recognised for outstanding effort

  • Identifying natural assets valued by the community

  • Funds bring new life to community group

  • Digging the dirt on dung

  • New signs explain Maitland’s floodway scheme

  • Summary of February 2011 CMA Board meeting

  • Calling all catchment champions

  • Summary of December 2010 CMA Board meeting

  • Celebrate World Wetlands Day with Hunter estuary king prawns

  • Call to coastal and marine volunteers

  • 1951 flood anniversary - a timely reminder of how floods affect infrastructure

  • Supporting Aboriginal students for a future in NRM

  • Proposed amendments to the Environmental Outcomes Assessment Methodology

  • NSW boaters and fishers, we need your ideas!

  • Jabiru’s return to Hexham Swamp

  • Are You FloodSafe? Authorities warn to prepare for summer floods

  • Support for environmental initiatives

  • Culture at Crowdy Head

  • Returning the River Red Gum to the Hunter River

  • Trial of organic control options for Privet underway

  • Caring for the Karuah River

  • Waterwatching around the region

  • Phosphorous Awareness Week

  • CMA Board visits the Central Coast

  • Preserving habitat for the Bush Stone Curlew

  • Working together on Country

  • Watch out for wrigglers during Water Week

  • Reinforcing the Williams River

  • Annual NSW Coastal Management Awards

  • Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority Board members to visit the Central Coast

  • New support for Aboriginal communities on the Central Coast

  • Students get creative to help the Hunter River

  • Maitland’s dramatic flood history comes to life on new DVD

  • Public invited to comment on draft policy

  • Playing their part for the Pages River

  • Desperately seeking Salvinia

  • Building a bridge for biodiversity

  • The value of a tree

  • Platypus PACT strengthens

  • Workshop to turn the TIDE on weeds

  • Students take to sustainable farming

  • From pastures to pockets

  • Bioagents on a mission

  • Fishers for Fish Habitat

  • CMA Board welcomes Jane Smith and welcomes back John Weate

  • Waterwatch training day in Singleton

  • Walk & talk tour commemorates third anniversary of flooding in Maitland

  • Discover your blue backyard

  • Ironbark Creek floodgate update

  • Protecting our rainforest remnant

  • Protecting endangered plants at Cellito

  • Research to help farmers face uncertain future

  • Fish get a leg up on the Wallamba

  • Students storming the suburbs

  • Students get creative to keep their creek clean

  • Becoming aware on the coast

  • School holiday fun at Kooragang Wetlands

  • CMA Board farewells John Asquith

  • Support to improve our catchments

  • Maitland’s dramatic flood history comes to life

  • See you at Tocal Field Days!

  • NSW Catchment Management Authorities delegation to visit the Hunter

  • Landholders join forces against invasive weed

  • Farm improvements made to Last

  • Workshop to help pick the weeds from the natives

  • Waterwatchers investigate wriggly wonders in waterways

  • Rainforest and wildlife corridor at Ourimbah to be restored and protected

  • Commemorating the 1955 Flood

  • Mosquitoes and Hexham Swamp

  • Shorebirds of the Hunter Estuary

  • Keeping the 'P' out of our waterways

  • Sanctuary zone’s new lease on life

  • Help celebrate our region's precious wetlands

  • Help us celebrate our region’s precious wetlands

  • Angling towards survival

  • Healthy soils, healthy yields

  • Storming the suburbs

  • Bringing Hexham Swamp back to life

  • Calling all lovers of the coast

  • Seeking approval to continue restoration of Hexham Swamp

  • Mid Coast dairy farmers recognised for their achievements

  • Bird watching at Belltrees

  • Benefits flowing through our catchments

  • Funding available for rural landholders in the Tuggerah Lakes catchment

  • High tide at Hexham Swamp

• Newsletters

• Strategies and reports

  • Upgrading the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan

  • Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan

    • Evaluating CAP management targets

    • Have your say on the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan

    • Identifying natural assets of value to the community

    • Thinking about resilience

    • Reviewing the CAP

• Research projects

  • The Upper Hunter River Rehabilitation Initiative

• Education resources

  • Get creative with your rock pool critters!

  • Waterwatch Water Bug Detective Guide

  • Aboriginal Culturally Significant Landscapes

  • Maitland, City on the Hunter - Fighting floods or living with them?

  • The Hunter River Explorer

  • Where land meets water - a guide to riparian management in the Hunter Valley

  • Rocky Shores Resource Kit

  • Keeping a Project Journal

  • Hunter Bushland Resource Kit

  • A Sense of Place in Maitland

  • Copy of A Sense of Place in Maitland

  • Rehabilitating Australian Streambanks with Longstem Native Tubestock

• Fact sheets

• CMA submissions

About us

• Access to Information

  • The CMA's organisational structure

  • About the Hunter-Central Rivers CMA

  • The CMA's strategic plan

  • CMA decisions

  • CMA finances

  • Access to information

• The Board

  • Ted Laurie

  • Susan Hooke (Chair)

  • Jeff Jansson

  • Jane Smith

  • The Hunter-Central Rivers CMA Board

  • Julia Imrie

  • John Weate

  • Arthur Burns

• Subcommittees

  • Central Coast Community Reference Group

  • Hexham Swamp and Kooragang Wetland Rehabilitation Projects Committee

  • Subcommittees of the CMA

  • Aboriginal Cultural & Environmental Network – CMA Partnership Committee

  • Hunter Community Reference Group

  • Newcastle Catchment Management Forum

• Contact us

Getting involved

• Waterwatch

  • Water bug surveys

  • Catchment Crawls

  • Water quality monitoring

• VegWatch

• Aboriginal communities

• Preparing for floods

  • Maitland’s 1955 flood stories come to life on Youtube

  • St Catherine’s Catholic College excursion of Maitland floodways

  • Maitland Mercury acknowledged for support of the CMA's community flood education project

  • Book launch for ‘The Hunter’ - Scott Bevan’s journey down the Hunter River by kayak

  • Maitland Public School students visit the Hunter River

  • Flood tour in central Maitland

  • Flood tour at Maitland Station

  • Students inspect flood mitigation scheme in Maitland

  • ‘Walk the Talk’ flood tour of Maitland

  • Five year anniversary of the June 2007 flood in Maitland

  • Maitland flood tours commemorate anniversary of the 1955 flood

  • Copy of Memories come flooding back

  • Memories come flooding back

  • Providing information to flood-prone communities

• Volunteering

• Upcoming events