This project will engage community volunteers to review &collate OHCG's historic and current NRM projects and on-ground works into a digital database (including spatial data) which will be used for future planning and monitoring and evaluation to ensure that:
Through its Strategic Planning processes, the OHCG has identified the need to develop a searchable project and activity database. The OHCG have been operating in the region for almost 30 years, during which time it has successfully partnered with landowners and many stakeholders to deliver a range of programs and initiatives. Lack of resourcing and short-term project focus has encouraged a “what’s next” mindset which has resulted in not cataloguing projects effectively for future use or allowing for impact monitoring and evaluation: data is not being put to best use. This further results in OHCG not effectively communicating the impact of the NRM work that has occurred and the risk of staff succession and potential loss of corporate/ community knowledge.
If you are interested in local history of the community and it's natural resource management or have any knowledge of past projects/documents please contact us.
- Gaps are identified and that current and future NRM works are targeted and prioritised;
- Group history and succession of corporate and community knowledge is captured and maintained;
- NRM impact can be assessed through monitoring and evaluation and then promoted.
Through its Strategic Planning processes, the OHCG has identified the need to develop a searchable project and activity database. The OHCG have been operating in the region for almost 30 years, during which time it has successfully partnered with landowners and many stakeholders to deliver a range of programs and initiatives. Lack of resourcing and short-term project focus has encouraged a “what’s next” mindset which has resulted in not cataloguing projects effectively for future use or allowing for impact monitoring and evaluation: data is not being put to best use. This further results in OHCG not effectively communicating the impact of the NRM work that has occurred and the risk of staff succession and potential loss of corporate/ community knowledge.
If you are interested in local history of the community and it's natural resource management or have any knowledge of past projects/documents please contact us.
June 2021 Update: Together Contributing to a more Prosperous and Sustainable Catchment
My beautiful archive and discovery team have been amazing and a lot of fun to work with. We have gone through 25 governance and project files so far learning something new every day.
For example, did you know there were original 12 land catchment volunteer committees looking after different sub-catchments within the Oyster Harbour Catchment? In a way, it's a bit sad that we now only have one but hopefully, all those people would be proud of the work Oyster Harbour Catchment group continues to do. We always have room for more committee members if you want to make sure your sub-catchment is getting looked after.
On the brighter side, there are many familiar names within the documents that we still see as passionate as ever within the Landcare space. Heather Adams: OHCG current chair, Bruce Radys: OHCG current senior project officer and Johanna Tomlinson; Current SCNRM Operations Officer and OHCG member as young project officers are always fun names to find. I also recently found my grand dad: Tony Kelly name in some 1998-2000 pasture trails and remnant vegetation fencing on his/ now uncle's farm in Kendenup.
If you have any free time, are interested in history or just want to hang out with some great people please contact me Sayah at [email protected] and join the Archive and discovery team.
My beautiful archive and discovery team have been amazing and a lot of fun to work with. We have gone through 25 governance and project files so far learning something new every day.
For example, did you know there were original 12 land catchment volunteer committees looking after different sub-catchments within the Oyster Harbour Catchment? In a way, it's a bit sad that we now only have one but hopefully, all those people would be proud of the work Oyster Harbour Catchment group continues to do. We always have room for more committee members if you want to make sure your sub-catchment is getting looked after.
On the brighter side, there are many familiar names within the documents that we still see as passionate as ever within the Landcare space. Heather Adams: OHCG current chair, Bruce Radys: OHCG current senior project officer and Johanna Tomlinson; Current SCNRM Operations Officer and OHCG member as young project officers are always fun names to find. I also recently found my grand dad: Tony Kelly name in some 1998-2000 pasture trails and remnant vegetation fencing on his/ now uncle's farm in Kendenup.
If you have any free time, are interested in history or just want to hang out with some great people please contact me Sayah at [email protected] and join the Archive and discovery team.
April 2021 Update
We have started our archiving journey with a student from UWA in Perth coming down drafting up a process and register with a bit of trial and error.
We have even learnt something interesting already...
Though this project was initiated to help us better understand and promote our Landcare history before our 30th birthday next year, the group is older than 30. 1992 was just when the group changed its name from Oyster Harbour Catchment Committee to Group.
Note from one of our Archiving Volunteer's- Gracie
My name is Gracie, and I study History and Law at the University of Western Australia. I travelled to Porongurup and Mount Barker to work with the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) to assist in the creation of an archive system for a range of documents and source types. At the same time, my mentor and I were investigating the history of community-led land management and its development in WA.
Although I only spent a short amount of time at the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group, I found it to be a great and insightful experience as I had never worked with such a group or had much experience with community-minded work-environments.
Whilst working, it was clear that the group valued collaboration, and any perspective and historical memory was welcomed. Notably, many informal catch-ups would occur, as community members would walk into the office and strike up a conversation. When they were told that we were looking into the history of the group, many were delighted and stayed a while to recount their own memories, adding to the collective narrative of the group.
The community was a clear central point of the group’s operations. As I learned from the OHCG members the projects that they were working on, the long-term commitment to improving land care was key in their work. Even though it was hard to work towards maintaining land quality due to the limitations of funding, the team would make it their priority to ensure the land was protected for the long term. Since I had not seen the workings of community land management before, their drive was inspiring and the work the group was conducting outlined to me the importance of local groups in a range of activities, including long-term data collection, collective land memory and achieving community desires to improve their local lands.
I deeply appreciated understanding the vast range of projects that the time was working on, the welcoming community spirit and, upon looking at the archives and listen to recollections of the oral history, the collective ability of the group to secure funding and to notably create positive changes in the landscape. I am very thankful for OHCG for opening their doors to my mentor and me, and I hope to work with them again in the future.
Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) is approaching its 30th birthday. Initially sparked into action in 1992 by the community’s desire to protect and rehabilitate the Oyster Harbour through the Kalgan River, off the legacy of local Land Conservation Districts Committees such as Kalgan LCDC, Napier LCDC, and Manypeaks LCDC. We have since expanded our activities, focusing on preserving all the 3000km2 catchments natural assets and supporting land managers to adopt best practice and farming.
We wish to review, collate and digitize our communities historic efforts to sustainably manage our natural resources and protect our valuable natural assets. This archiving project: Taking Past Learnings into the Future, will enable us too better promote and celebrate local effort, ensure the delivery of strategic future NRM projects, value-add to past projects and evaluate best practice and NRM impact in the catchment.
If you are interested in local history, have any experience archiving or want to help. Please contact our communication officer, Sayah: [email protected]. We need all the help we can get.
A lack of resourcing and our focus on on-ground action has resulted in poor cataloguing and the loss information over the years with the turn-over of staff and volunteer committee members. If you have any information/ documents about OHCG/ past Landcare, please let us know.
September 2020
Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) is approaching its 30th birthday. Initially sparked into action in 1992 by the community’s desire to protect and rehabilitate the Oyster Harbour through the Kalgan River, off the legacy of local Land Conservation Districts Committees such as Kalgan LCDC, Napier LCDC, and Manypeaks LCDC. We have since expanded our activities, focusing on preserving all the 3000km2 catchments natural assets and supporting land managers to adopt best practice and farming.
We wish to review, collate and digitize our communities historic efforts to sustainably manage our natural resources and protect our valuable natural assets. This archiving project: Taking Past Learnings into the Future, will enable us too better promote and celebrate local effort, ensure the delivery of strategic future NRM projects, value-add to past projects and evaluate best practice and NRM impact in the catchment.
If you are interested in local history, have any experience archiving or want to help. Please contact our communication officer, Sayah: [email protected]. We need all the help we can get.
A lack of resourcing and our focus on on-ground action has resulted in poor cataloguing and the loss information over the years with the turn-over of staff and volunteer committee members. If you have any information/ documents about OHCG/ past Landcare, please let us know.
We have started our archiving journey with a student from UWA in Perth coming down drafting up a process and register with a bit of trial and error.
We have even learnt something interesting already...
Though this project was initiated to help us better understand and promote our Landcare history before our 30th birthday next year, the group is older than 30. 1992 was just when the group changed its name from Oyster Harbour Catchment Committee to Group.
Note from one of our Archiving Volunteer's- Gracie
My name is Gracie, and I study History and Law at the University of Western Australia. I travelled to Porongurup and Mount Barker to work with the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) to assist in the creation of an archive system for a range of documents and source types. At the same time, my mentor and I were investigating the history of community-led land management and its development in WA.
Although I only spent a short amount of time at the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group, I found it to be a great and insightful experience as I had never worked with such a group or had much experience with community-minded work-environments.
Whilst working, it was clear that the group valued collaboration, and any perspective and historical memory was welcomed. Notably, many informal catch-ups would occur, as community members would walk into the office and strike up a conversation. When they were told that we were looking into the history of the group, many were delighted and stayed a while to recount their own memories, adding to the collective narrative of the group.
The community was a clear central point of the group’s operations. As I learned from the OHCG members the projects that they were working on, the long-term commitment to improving land care was key in their work. Even though it was hard to work towards maintaining land quality due to the limitations of funding, the team would make it their priority to ensure the land was protected for the long term. Since I had not seen the workings of community land management before, their drive was inspiring and the work the group was conducting outlined to me the importance of local groups in a range of activities, including long-term data collection, collective land memory and achieving community desires to improve their local lands.
I deeply appreciated understanding the vast range of projects that the time was working on, the welcoming community spirit and, upon looking at the archives and listen to recollections of the oral history, the collective ability of the group to secure funding and to notably create positive changes in the landscape. I am very thankful for OHCG for opening their doors to my mentor and me, and I hope to work with them again in the future.
Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) is approaching its 30th birthday. Initially sparked into action in 1992 by the community’s desire to protect and rehabilitate the Oyster Harbour through the Kalgan River, off the legacy of local Land Conservation Districts Committees such as Kalgan LCDC, Napier LCDC, and Manypeaks LCDC. We have since expanded our activities, focusing on preserving all the 3000km2 catchments natural assets and supporting land managers to adopt best practice and farming.
We wish to review, collate and digitize our communities historic efforts to sustainably manage our natural resources and protect our valuable natural assets. This archiving project: Taking Past Learnings into the Future, will enable us too better promote and celebrate local effort, ensure the delivery of strategic future NRM projects, value-add to past projects and evaluate best practice and NRM impact in the catchment.
If you are interested in local history, have any experience archiving or want to help. Please contact our communication officer, Sayah: [email protected]. We need all the help we can get.
A lack of resourcing and our focus on on-ground action has resulted in poor cataloguing and the loss information over the years with the turn-over of staff and volunteer committee members. If you have any information/ documents about OHCG/ past Landcare, please let us know.
September 2020
Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) is approaching its 30th birthday. Initially sparked into action in 1992 by the community’s desire to protect and rehabilitate the Oyster Harbour through the Kalgan River, off the legacy of local Land Conservation Districts Committees such as Kalgan LCDC, Napier LCDC, and Manypeaks LCDC. We have since expanded our activities, focusing on preserving all the 3000km2 catchments natural assets and supporting land managers to adopt best practice and farming.
We wish to review, collate and digitize our communities historic efforts to sustainably manage our natural resources and protect our valuable natural assets. This archiving project: Taking Past Learnings into the Future, will enable us too better promote and celebrate local effort, ensure the delivery of strategic future NRM projects, value-add to past projects and evaluate best practice and NRM impact in the catchment.
If you are interested in local history, have any experience archiving or want to help. Please contact our communication officer, Sayah: [email protected]. We need all the help we can get.
A lack of resourcing and our focus on on-ground action has resulted in poor cataloguing and the loss information over the years with the turn-over of staff and volunteer committee members. If you have any information/ documents about OHCG/ past Landcare, please let us know.
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