Climate change forum for landholders

Managing Your Land for the Future – Resilience and Adaptation for Climate Change

The Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment Coordinating Committee (UMCCC) is hosting a two day forum about managing your land for the future. This is a chance for landcare groups and farmers to talk about the challenges that people who look after the land are facing and ways in which we can start to address them.

The climate in the upper Murrumbidgee catchment is changing. Temperature records are regularly broken, seasonal climate patterns are moving and extremes of drought and flood are predicted.

Those living on the land or managing land and water resources are dealing with the changes on a daily basis. Managing for adaptation and resilience is essential.

This two day forum includes speakers addressing the science of Climate Change such as Mark Stafford Smith, from the Climate Adaptation Flagship at CSIRO, through to practical applications such as ‘temperature and animal health’ by Phil Graham at NSW Department of Primary Industries.

These will be coupled with field trips to different parts of the catchment to learn about ‘whole-of-paddock’ rehabilitation and looking after your river paddocks.

When: 18 and 19 March 2016, 9am – 5pm

Where: Day 1 – Murrumbateman Recreation Hall, Barton Highway, NSW. 
Day 2 – Jerrabomberra Community Centre, Queanbeyan, NSW.

Buses will be provided from there for field trips.