Murrumbidgee Wetlands Forum 2006
22nd- 24th November 2006
Practical Management in an Altered Environment
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“Wetlands of the Murrumbidgee River Catchment:
Practical Management in an Altered Environment”
Wednesday 22nd
- Pre- Murrumbidgee Wetlands Forum tour of Lower Murrumbidgee Wetlands
- Murrumbidgee River floodplain wetlands, Barren Box Swamp, Tuckerbil Swamp, and Fivebough Swamp
- Wednesday evening 5.30pm to 7.30pm
- Wetlands Forum Registration and Reception at Fivebough Wetlands
- Venue: Budyaan Baamirra Centre, Fivebough Wetlands
Enter via Petersham Road carpark
- Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th
- Murrumbidgee Wetlands Forum Venue: Leeton Soldiers Club, Auditorium
8.00am Registrations
8.40am Introductions
Mr. Dick Thompson, Chairman Murrumbidgee Irrigation.
8.45am Welcome to Wiradjuri Country
William and Anne-Marie Ingram, Wiradjuri
9.00am Opening of Murrumbidgee Wetlands Forum
The Honourable Ms Kay Hull MP, Federal member for the Riverina
Sessions Day 1.
9.20am Wetlands of the Murrumbidgee and their management issues
Session Chair Mr. Phil Green
- Dr. Patricia Murray Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority:
- Wetlands of the Murrumbidgee River Catchment.
- Dr. Rodger Good:
- Wetlands of the Snowy Mountains – their ecological rehabilitation and management.
- Mr. Marcus Wright Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority:
- Environmental Water Management in the Regulated Murrumbidgee.
10.50am Morning Tea
11.10am Historical Perspective of Wetlands
Session Chair Mr. Bruce Gray
- Ms. Fiona Little University of Adelaide:
- Long Term Water Quality Changes in Murrumbidgee Floodplain Wetlands Revealed by Fossil Diatom Assemblages.
- Mr. Jimmy Ingram Nurrungadera Wiradjuri elder:
- Murrumbidgee Wetlands and Wiradjrui People.
- Professor David Mitchell Charles Sturt University:
- Chain of pond wetlands – Natural Sequence Farming
- 12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Wetland Rehabilitation Management
- Session Chair Ms Tracey Valenzisi
- Mr. Rob Kelly Murrumbidgee Irrigation:
- Large Scale Water Conservation and Wetland Rehabilitation – Barren Box Swamp Project.
- Mr. Mike Schultz Fivebough and Tuckerbil Wetlands Trust:
- Managing Wetlands of International Importance: Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps, southern New South Wales, Australia.
- Mr. Ross McDonnell New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation:
- Yanga National Park managing Murrumbidgee floodplain wetlands.
3.00pm Afternoon Tea
3.20pm Management and Community
Session Chair Mr. Marcus Wright
- Mr. Richard Hunter Bird Observers Club of Australia (BOCA):
- BOCA INTO THE FUTURE – The next hundred years.
- Dr. Robyn Molsher New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation: NSW Ramsar Managers Network-Government and landholders working together.
5.00pm Close of Day One
7.00pm MurrumbidgeeWetlands Forum Dinner ‘Taste of Leeton’
- Venue: MIA Sports Club, Racecourse Road, Leeton
Mr. Lee O’Brien, Chairman Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority
CELEBRITY LECTURE
- Mr. Sean Dooley Comedian, Author ‘The Big Twitch’, Author, and Conservationist.
Sessions Day 2.
9.00am Managing Wetlands for Vegetation
Session Chair Ms. Sally Hunt
- Dr. Anne Jensen University of Adelaide:
- The Secret Life of Lignum Muehlenbeckia florulenta (Polygonaceae): little known plant of the floodplains.
- Dr. Daryl Nielsen Murray-Darling Freshwater Ecology:
- Wetland Salinity: Predicting the ecological consequences.
- Mr. Matt Herring Charles Sturt University:
- Conservation of Brolgas in Southern Australia.
- 10.30am Morning Tea
10.50am Managing Wetlands for Birds
Session Chair Dr. Laurie Lewin
- KEYNOTE Dr. Gillian Gilbert Royal Society for the Protection of Birds UK:
- A review of European bittern Botaurus stellaris research techniques and results: their potential application to Australasian bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus ecology and conservation.
- Dr. Iain Taylor Charles Sturt University:
- The foraging ecology of wading birds (Ciconiiformes) in rice fields in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, south-east Australia.
12.20pm Lunch
1.20pm Managing Wetlands for Birds
Session Chair Ms Claudia Nye
- Mr. Rick Webster Ecosurveys:
- A Baseline Study of Terrestrial Bird Populations in the State Forests of the Southern Riverina: 1999-2003.
- Mr. Geoff Larmour Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage:
- An Overview of Australian Government activities to Conserve Migratory Shorebirds in the East Asian- Australasian Flyway.
2.20pm Afternoon Tea
2.40pm Managing for Fish and Amphibians
Session Chair Dr. Patricia Murray
- Dr. Dean Gilligan New South Wales Department of Primary Industries – Fisheries:
- Native Fish in the Murrumbidgee
- Dr. Robyn Watts Charles Sturt University:
- Fish communities in floodplain wetlands of the mid-Murrumbidgee river.
- Dr. Skye Wassen Charles Sturt University:
- Frog communities of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, New South Wales.
4.10pm Wetland Forum summary.
Dr. Iain Taylor Charles Sturt University
