The story oflocal action
Stock fencing and off-stream watering projects enhance riparian restoration along the Logan River
This great project focuses on riparian restoration on the Mid-Logan River.
Creating a more resilient Logan River
In 2018, Scenic Rim Regional Council, Logan City Council and Resilient Rivers came together to offer landholders support with riparian restoration on the Mid-Logan River.
Restoration rolling out
Restoration projects have included weed management, riparian revegetation and erosion stabilisation with stock fencing and off-stream watering
Multi-outcomes
The project also addresses climate change impacts. Rising sea levels are expected to turn parts of the area into estuarine wetlands, creating opportunities for new land uses.
Inroads into weed management, gully restoration & stabilisation, fencing and watering
Six years after collaboration began, the Resilient Rivers Mid-Logan project has contributed to weed management on 19 properties, riparian restoration projects on eight properties, a riverbank and three gully stabilisation projects. Stock fencing has been installed on six properties and off-stream watering at three properties.
New uses
The initiative also Investigates and supports new uses for the surrounding rural and agricultural lands, including economic opportunities for landowners.
Community & recreational benefits
Collaboration with partners ensures project success on the ground and for the people and communities in the local areas.
Workshops & resources for local landholders
During project delivery, landholders have been supported through workshops which have addressed issues of concern for landholders and resourced them to continue with project maintenance. These gatherings have also been an opportunity for socialising and the important conversations which have led to the extension of fence lines and project boundaries.
Importantly, change has been encouraged in consultation and respect for individual landholders’ land use requirements.
Creating a more resilient Logan River
In 2018, Scenic Rim Regional Council, Logan City Council and Resilient Rivers came together to offer landholders support with riparian restoration on the Mid-Logan River. Restoration projects have included weed management, riparian revegetation and erosion stabilisation with stock fencing and off-stream watering systems supporting these projects.
Critically, it has been landholder cooperation and encouragement which has increased the participation in stock fencing and off-stream watering projects.
Landholders have seen the benefit of fencing. They have encouraged their adjacent neighbours or neighbours across the river to fence, protecting more of the Mid-Logan riverbank.
The installation of fencing and an alternative source of drinking water for stock away from river and creek banks has ensured that revegetation is untrampled, natural regeneration can occur, and banks are protected from further erosion. If grazing does occur again, it is only after a minimum of three years when vegetation is well-established and for short periods in better seasons.
A Resilient Rivers catchment coordinator, working across both Scenic Rim Regional Council and Logan City Council has enabled projects to be delivered on both Scenic Rim and Logan properties on both sides of the Mid-Logan River.
Collaboration in riverbank restoration
With many stakeholders supporting landholders on the Mid-Logan, participation in riparian restoration projects has been supported by regular stakeholder get togethers, and a coordinated approach to landholder engagement.
Resilient Rivers weed management has progressed adjacent to Healthy Land & Water’s Cat’s Claw creeper management program on the Mid-Logan River funded by Seqwater.
The Seqwater and Healthy Land & Water Multi Catchment Source Water Protection Partnership has extended upon the delivery of riparian revegetation along the Mid-Logan River.
Most recently, Resilient Rivers landholder engagement has supported the initiation of Healthy Land & Water’s Cedar Grove State Disaster Recovery Funded stock fencing and riparian revegetation projects on three Mid-Logan properties.
Within the context of a coordinated engagement program, the primary objective of the partnership is to work with landholders to protect and maintain riparian areas of high ecological value. A further objective is to enhance high risk areas in the Mid-Logan priority investment area identified within the Resilient Rivers Logan-Albert Catchment Action Plan.
Next steps
The future vision for the Mid-Logan project is for stock fencing to be extended along both sides of the Logan River from Cedar Grove to Beaudesert where practical, and more off-stream watering systems installed were necessary to support the protection of riparian habitat and the Mid-Logan and tributary riverbanks.
Partnership approach
A story ofstewardshipand local action in SEQ
Scenic Rim: Creating a more resilient Logan River
Massive region-wide partnerships approach
The South East Queensland Stewardship Report is proudly funded and supported by the Queensland Government
This project has only been made possible by a collaboration of forward-thinking organisations.
Healthy Land & Water
Level 11, 240 Queen St
GPO Box 735
MEANJIN (BRISBANE)
QLD 4001
Australia
Healthy Land and Water Ltd
ABN 91 115 662 989
About Us
What's happening
Our Impact
Follow Us
