INFOMATION

Plans

OUR LAND, OUR WATER, OUR FUTURE

Our land, our water, our future is the Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) Natural Resource Management (NRM) plan. This living plan is renewed every five years with he most recent version covering 2021 to 2025. It will guide investment in the region until 2025. This plan uses an online platform enabling readers to explore the interactive maps. For a summary, check out this factsheet.

You can also still navigate the 2016-2020 version in this interactive sub-site, or download it as a navigable PDF. This follows the original 2004-2009 version and the second iteration covering 2010-2015. Information to support the NRM plan, such as community feedback, available science and reports, along with additional maps of key features in the region is documented in a Community Information Paper.

An overview of our latest Strategic Plan can be viewed here.

The plan included targeted management actions in certain areas that are displayed on individual maps. These actions are developed to clearly identify where investment is required within the region under any of the three themes of natural resources, industry or community. This information provides the community with a clear overview of where investment is required to sustain our natural resources.

The six highest-ranking issues identified by the community were (in order of priority):

Weeds/feral animals
Vegetation management
Grazing pressure/Pasture management/Safe carrying capacity
Surface water management
Land degradation
Viability/economics

Other issues identified by the community were (in alphabetical order):

Biodiversity Conservation / Endangered Species
Chemical Contamination / Waste Management / Pollution
Climate Risk and Drought
Diversification
Education / Awareness
Great Artesian Basin
Indigenous Land Management
Lack of data
Mining and Petroleum
Property Management Practices / Planning
Salinity
Security of Tenure
Streamline Ecology
Tourism
Wildlife use / harvesting

Previous plans and supporting material

Below is a list of the current and historical planning documents used by DCQ to guide sustainable natural resource management across the 510,000 square kilometre Queensland section of the Lake Eyre Basin.