Recently Sandy Pate, Landcare facilitator with Perth Region NRM attended a farm foresty field day held just south of Perth.

Read Sandy's report by clicking here..

There are a wide range of farm forestry opportunities for land managers in the Perth region. Check out the farm forestry library by clicking here...

Around 30 new regionally relevant information resources have been added to the information hub. Here is a taster of just some of them:

Carbon farming

Clean Energy Future, The Carbon Farming Initiative Handbook.(2012)

Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI), CFI Methodology: Environmental Plantings of Native Species.(2012)

Janet Paterson and Fran Hoyle, Soil organic carbon - A Western Australian perspective.(2011)

Measuring organic carbon in soils in vineyards.(2010)

Land management

These will be particularly useful as we move into summer:

Kondinin Group, Calculating dam capacity.(2011)

Supplementary feeding, keeping livestock healthy during summer.(2008)

Kondinin Group, Windbreaks - protecting your property. (2012)

Supplementary feeding, keeping livestock healthy during summer.(2008)

Sally Peltzer, The cost of summer weeds.(2011)

View the full list here....