This booklet provides advice for woolgrowers in the mid north grasslands and shrublands of South Australia, on using planning grazing to optimise productivity and environmental outcomes on their property. Emphasises the importance of management tools in

This document entitled Regional scenario planning in practice outlines the processes used in the Irrigation Futures project. It provides details of how we engaged the community to formulate scenarios, explore impacts, consider implications, and develop appropriate response strategies for our region. It has been developed as a guidebook for those who may wish to use a similar approach to planning with their communities. Users will obviously have to modify the processes to suit their

This publication forms part of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation Irrigation Insights series. It explores some of the many facets of the term water use efficiency, and attempts to provide a simple, clear and concise guide to the topic. It also collates and summarises some of the current scientific and field knowledge, though with a rather 'Australia-centric' flavour. The publication was written to a brief that required the production of a compendium of current knowledge on water use efficiency that: *provides an explanation of and context for water use efficiency at a range of scales *reviews and assesses procedures for estimating water use efficiency *presents case studies and examples of water use efficiency estimation at a range of scales * reviews the current status of water use efficiency research and development. It is intended to appeal to a wide audience, from water users, through to academics, service sector, agencies and technocrats and, as such, is a practical, rather than theoretical, guide

This factsheet is a summary of the Integrating Biodiversity with Sustainable Grazing Systems project. Provides information about the success of Tasmanian Midlands wool producers, and the key aims, objectives and outcomes of the project.

Network projects in NSW along with the SGSL sub-program has provided information to wool producers about possible solution to salinity and saltland management, as the result of large-scale research. Provides contacts and further resources

Geophysical techniques involve the use of ground-based and airborne geophysical devices to measure physical properties of the earth. They can assist in the planning and management of irrigation developments by identifying the size and depth of aquifers, the connectivity between surface and ground water, the salinity of aquifers, the mineral composition and depth of the soil and the chances of successful water boring. Most geophysics applied to irrigation is in the form of imaging conducted by moving various devices over the ground, or by insertion and monitoring of sensors within the ground. This book provides an introduction to various geophysical techniques for water managers, including irrigators, engineers and staff of water and catchment authorities and all those involved in various aspects of the irrigation industry from design through to implementation and monitoring.

Project SummaryTRC1 This project will explore the extent to which widely used measures of rangeland condition can also serve as surrogates for biodiversity status. Where currently used indicators prove inadequate, new indicators may need to be developed for use in monitoring critical or sensitive components of biodiversity. During the project, biodiversity attributes and measures of land condition will be sampled at sites ranging in condition, in three representative rangeland regions of northern Australia. The project will develop and validate mechanisms for biodiversity monitoring within rangelands, an important tool for improving adaptive management and ecological sustainable use of the rangelands.

A ground-breaking national research project is underway on 43 mixed farms to quantify the relationships between biodiversity and on-farm production.

The Central Highlands Regional Resource Use Planning Project was an experiment studying regional planning process as well as a real-world planning exercise aimed at establishing a negotiated and integrated approach to planning in the Central Highlands of Queensland. During the three years of the research project, a CSIRO research team provided technical assistance, administrative support and project coordination as well as documenting, synthesising, and evaluating the findings.

This report presents the findings and recommendations arising from a review of dryland salinity R&D commissioned by a consortium of the three agencies responsible for most of the Commonwealth funding support for dryland salinity Research and Development (R&D) in Australia. The review was initiated by the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (L WRRDC) as part of its undertaking to develop a Dryland Salinity R&D Program.