Water storages (reservoirs) play a vital role in the supply of water for irrigation farms, serving to smooth variation in supply and maximise the economic value of water over time. In Australia, major irrigation water storages are centrally managed via an announced allocation system. This publication discusses work undertaken to trial and evaluate two decentralised approaches - carryover rights and capacity sharing.

The integration of environmental weed control within a broader natural resource management framework is an important component of a whole-of-systems approach to conservation and management of our ecological assets. This publication is one of a suite of 13 produced as part of a folder showcasing research from the Defeating the Weed Menace Research and Development program.

Brochure on LWA Innovations, Products and Projects

The Brigalow Belt is a national biodiversity hotspot, and its extensive forests and woodlands are potentially significant refugia for fragmentation-sensitive birds. But our understanding of optimal management for biodiversity conservation and the specific threatsfacing woodland birds in the area is limited. In particular, management of the aggressive noisy miner is a major challenge throughout the region, despite the species typically being associated with fragmented landscapes.

In this issue: Five yearly report card on the state of Australia's Forests; Agro-ecology: ecological diversity by design; AgroForestry and natural resource management - lessons from the Joint Venture Agroforestry Program over the past 15 years; Plantation Forests: the Facts revealed; The Australian Master Treegrower Program - adapting to a changing landscape

This is a ready reckoner to assist farmers in matching stocking rate to the feed availability. It describes a new way of providing a food supply that was not utilised previously without compromising the cereal output.

The National Riparian Lands R&D Program has run for 13 years and this edition of RipRap features the researchers who have been involved, the key findings that have been made and the products that have been developed to apply science to day

In early 1997, the Corporation and its partners released a series of issues papers on riparian management. These were designed for a non-technical audience, to promote awareness of riparian functions. They discussed a range of riparian management issues and techniques for stabilising banks, trapping sediment, improving the ecological condition of streams, and managing stock access. There was a huge response to the issues papers-further evidence of the widespread demand for better information on riparian management. These guidelines are a follow-up to the issues papers. They provide additional information of a technical nature and have been designed to provide professional land managers, advisers, State and Territory agency staff and local government staff, with the information they need to assist non-technical people operating at the farm or catchment level to design and implement best-practice riparian management. The guidelines augment and complement other sources of information on riparian management. They provide sufficient technical information so that readers can understand important principles underlying riparian issues and adapt them, as required, to their particular objectives, climate, farming enterprise or other circumstance. Volume 2 contains the management strategies themselves. Each guideline can be used on its own by practitioners interested in particular objectives, but readers are encouraged to look at all the guidelines to see if additional objectives can be achieved.

Review Objectives 1. To identify the current status of knowledge of the national salinity situation in terms of its environmental impacts on riverine and wetland condition and health and related management issues 2. To identify the scale, scope and management implications of current research work being undertaken on identifying and quantifying the effects of increasing salinity on riverine and wetland health 3. To identify critical R&D gaps and associated management implications of environmental effects