![]() ![]() ![]() The 2021 Dixie Fire, the second largest in state history, decimated the town of Greenville in Plumas County, burned over 960,000 acres of land, and demolished 1,329 homes and structures, while also upending the lives of thousands forced to evacuate. 1 These fires spread harmful smoke across the state, damaged forestland and wildfire habitats, and devastated communities with loss of life and property. From 2018 to 2021 over an estimated 9 million acres of land were burned in wildfires. This project is current and runs from 2019 to 2023.Our forests and the communities that reside among them are at risk. It will implement the practice of cover crops in plant cane to reduce erosion risk and to improve plant cane establishment. The project will also include demonstration trials in sugarcane involving agricultural lime application to stimulate nitrogen mineralisation, improving soil pH, microbial activity, and availability of nitrogen. It will also address hillslope erosion risk through land type fencing and water points, pasture monitoring, stocking rates and rotational grazing. It is expected the project will build upon successful past trials including the NLP demonstration trial in grazing including the application of agricultural lime to improve soil properties, specifically pH. The project will support farming enterprises with natural systems and will provide land managers and food producers with the essential knowledge and tools to make informed decisions on all aspects of agriculture to support environmental, economic, and social outcomes. Funding will be available to approved participants to implement and test activities which address soil carbon as well as secondary priorities. Participants will receive ongoing access to seminars and field demonstrations. Leading agricultural change practitioners will lead participants through the holistic management course. Improved soil carbon is an outcome of sound regenerative land management practices. This project will take an holistic approach to farm management, primarily to improve soil carbon to benefit farm productivity and to provide ecological services. This project aims to increase awareness and the adoption of land management practices to improve and protect the condition of soil, biodiversity, and vegetation on properties within the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac regions. ![]()
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