Land management in Noosa tackles topsoil erosion into everglades waterway system

Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast is renowned for its fine food, beautiful beaches, national parks and its pristine network of waterways that form one of only two everglade systems in the world, the other being in Florida. Like dozens of other landholders, graziers Jeanette and Bruce Glasby are working with Landcare to remediate the legacy of past land use, when the rural town of Kin Kin's steep hills were clear felled for timber and farming. Floods contribute to topsoil loss Aerial photos shared by Queensland's Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk after this year's flood showed brown plumes of sediment as they surged into the ocean near Noosa's famous Hastings Street. Keeping it in Kin Kin Landowners, Noosa council, and Noosa and District Landcare are among many groups working on 'Keeping it in Kin Kin', a project aimed at keeping precious topsoil in place. Noosa and District Landcare's project officer for "Keeping it in Kin Kin", Jamie Knight works with landholders to revegetate erosion-prone gullies and creek lines, in part by planting out thousands of trees.