Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority
Government in Southern Grampians

Integrated and sustainable catchment management. The Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (AMA) is responsible for the planning and implementation of strategies to keep and enhance the health of the region's biodiversity, soils and land. The Glenelg Hopkins Advisory Group is one of the vehicles by which the AMA can engage the community and its major partners in the development and adaptive management of the Regional Catchment Strategy, its sub strategies and plans. Members of the Advisory Group communicate with and access people in the community with an interest in specific resource management matters, they may have exceptional expertise in some aspects of the AMA's strategies, or may be involved in activities suitable to implementation of strategies and plans. The Regional Catchment Strategy (JCS) is the key planning document that will set regional priorities for the tomorrow management of automatic resources across the Glenelg Hopkins region. As a community organization we comprehend the importance of ensuring that everyone in the community has a chance to contribute, we are therefore working closely with the community and key partner organizations in the natural resource management field. Local councils own and control important parcels of land and are responsible for some roadside vegetation. The urge of local government is vital in many areas of the AMA’s activities, including sustainable agriculture, native vegetation retention, floodplain and drainage management and pest plant and animal control. This is important given that councils and Xmas each play a urgent role in responsible spontaneous resource management. Integrating the Regional Catchment Strategy and associated action plans with the planning schemes of local government will lead to improved automatic resource management and land use planning. Agriculture is dominant, with forestry and fishing largely confined to the South west coastal parts of the region. But it can only be done with the encourage of the community. I liked watching when they were all stunning the fish. She said she was surprised to see how many fish there were in the river. We've done a lot of labor in recent years removing fish barriers, creating fish habitat by adding snags back to the river and improving flows through releasing water for the environment from docklands, he said. It's huge to see a genuine change in native fish numbers in the upper Glenelg at the identical time. Stokes River and the Crawford River flows into the Glenelg in the Lower regions of the River. The Cannon River flows into the Glenelg River, so is therefore portion of the Glenelg Basin, much as the Darling River flows into Australia’s largest river the Murray, yet the Cannon is the third largest river in the catchment in its own right. Smaller streams and waterways all unload into these larger rivers and creeks. Habitat The natural home of a plant or animal. Native Forest Any local indigenous community, the dominant species of which are trees and containing throughout its growth the complement of native species and habitats normally associated with that forest type or having the potential to prosper these characteristics. Remnants often exist as patches of trees and shrubs, however, the term also describes fragmented native ecosystems or a product of existing land uses and management practices. Understorey The layer of vegetation that grows below the canopy formed by the tallest trees in the forest. Watertable The slick of water below which the ground is saturated with water.