A high-level strategy and grant application to support graziers and the environment has been developed by Southern Gulf NRM in the aftermath of the North West flood.
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Southern Gulf NRM announced its work commitment to support communities through the flood disaster and develop a stronger beef industry with a more sustainable landscape.
Southern Gulf NRM CEO Andrew Maclean said he actioned two immediate responses to the flood.
"We have developed a high-level strategy promoting four level outcomes which was sent to the State and Commonwealth Governments on February 14," Mr Maclean said.
"This includes farm business and community resilience, landscape recovery, adoption of resilient management practices and program of assessment planning and monitoring.
"We believe if we can achieve those four high-level outcomes we will end up with a stronger community and landscape in improving condition.
"This would be managed by producers who are well equipped to make decisions to maintain the productivity of the landscape they manage."
Southern Gulf NRM's other immediate action was to support producers with grants to re-mediate and stabilise the environmental and productivity impacts of the floods.
"With the support of our regional producer community, we have provided a lot of information to the Queensland Department of Environment and Science who are pulling together a state-wide package for flood recovery under the disaster relief arrangement," Mr Maclean said.
"It is impossible to expect a comprehensive assessment of the flood impacts but we have enough evidence of the extent of the problem and that is helping to build the case for our significant investment of funding to support that aspect of the program.
"This was provided to the state government with a sense of urgency. So we hope there will be a commitment of funding so then we can provide a more detailed program based on a more complete survey of the region."
Mr Maclean said this strategy would remain a major theme for Southern Gulf's work for the "next several years."
"We need to be thinking about how we support producers to become more resilient in response to these types of disasters and make sure the landscape is well protected," he said.
"It is really a hand in gloves situation up here. About 95 percent of our region is managed for cattle production and those cattle producers need sustainable productive landscape.
"In saying that that landscape also needs them - the cattle producers have a huge role to play to ensure the productivity of that landscape is protected as these events occur.
"That's what natural resource management is, its intersection of people and the landscape."
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