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	Guides to: Weeds Soils Species Lists Catchments Phillips Brook Wattening Jimperding Boyagerring Toodyay Community Groups: Friends of the River Seed Orchard Naturalists' Club Major Issues Salinity Soil Acidity Revegetation Erosion Livestock Management Advice for the Small Landholder Small Landholder Information Service All feral animals (rabbits, foxes, pigs, etc.), on the one Website, click here Avon Gorge Invasive Species Group click here Pest plants click here Click link below to our Strategy For the Future Meet the members of our Committee Click here		WELCOME The Toodyay Land Conservation District Committee (LCDC) was formed in 1989 and operates within the boundaries of the Shire of Toodyay. It has a number of functions under the Soil and Land Conservation Act 1945, including ‘preventing, remedying or mitigating land degradation and for promoting soil conservation and reclamation'. THE LANDCARE MOVEMENT The Toodyay LCDC is a small part of the bigger landcare movement in Australia that commenced in the early 1980s. In 1997 it applied for and secured funding for a landcare officer (Community Landcare Coordinator - CLC, and later Community Landcare Support Officer - CLSO), who provided landcare advice to the ratepayers in Toodyay from 1998. Funding was provided for by the Australian and West Australian Governments, the Shire of Toodyay, and, more recently, by the ratepayers of the Shire of Toodyay (through a landcare service charge). The LCDC developed a Business Plan to support the position from 2002 to 2008, when they provided administrative support. CHANGING APPROACH In more recent years, the philosophy behind landcare began to evolve into a fresh methodology, one that was more inclusive to and with the environment. Rather than having an emphasis of pure 'landcare', the move encompassed other components of the environment through natural resource management (or NRM). TOODYAY LANDCARE - A STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE During 2008, the Toodyay LCDC assessed the work that had been undertaken by the CLSO. It considered that it had accomplished the goals set out in the Business Plan, and found the implementation of a further service charge was unnecessary. It also felt obliged to continue to provide landcare advice to new residents of the Shire. To achieve this, the LCDC developed a Strategy for the Future [a 2.24MB pdf document that can be downloaded by clicking 'here'] as an option to continue to provide landcare advice to the community. This includes NRM advice within its pages. An additional tool will be through this website, as it develops. The Strategy was publicly launched in Toodyay in October 2009 by the LCDC Chair, former Shire Councilor Frank Panizza. Copies of the Strategy are available post-free to ratepayers of the Shire of Toodyay. For copies, any other enquiries relating to the Strategy, or for other LCDC matters, please contact the Secretary. All administrative matters should be directed to LCDC Administration. Membership of the LCDC is through appointment by the Commissioner for Soil Conservation. Current members are listed at left (under 'Committee'). All enquiries regarding information about landcare issues should be directed to Landcare Information (Updated 8 January 2012) Back to the top Toodyay Community Links Toodyay Tourist Centre Toodyay Friends of the River Inc. Toodyay Naturalists' Club Shire of Toodyay Natural Resource Management Links Wheatbelt NRM Landcare Online National Landcare Facilitator Greening Australia Back to the top