Landholders Institute Inc

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=105 BGCOLOR="#666633" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="09e00690ddvuvs.gif"> <div> <B>Landholders Institute Inc</B></div> <div> <I>For  sustainable production, for sustainable conservation </I></div> <div> <I>and for defending landholders' rights. </I></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=375 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="913" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#993333" BORDERCOLORDARK="#993333" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=5 BGCOLOR=#996600 HEIGHT= 450 WIDTH="127"><bR> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meet some landholders"><U>Meet some landholders</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id98.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stories of injustice"><U>Stories of injustice</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Environmental Myths"><U>Environmental Myths</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research and articles"><U>Research and articles</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" >& "the Landholders institute" </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#DDDDDD" FACE="Arial" >papers</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission Statement"><U>Mission statement</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and Views archives"><U>News and Views Archives</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id105.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Press Releases"><U>Press Releases</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A> to other web sites</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><U>Books</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id174.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Satellite TV discussions"><U>Rural satellite TV plans</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="1a87d5e0.gif" border=0 width="125" height="94" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="mailto:barcoorah@mail.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:barcoorah@mail.com"><U><I><B>Contact us</B></I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> To subscribe or unsubscribe to our newsletter just send an email to barcoorah@mail.com</div> <div> with your request</div> <bR> <bR> <div>   <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> sw="none";sd="none";ref=""+escape(document.referrer); </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2"> sw=screen.width;nav=navigator.appName; sc=(nav!="Netscape")?screen.colorDepth:screen.pixelDepth; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> function doit(str) {document.writeln(str);} qs="&sw="+sw+"&sc="+sc+"&ref="+ref; url='http://counter41.bravenet.com/index.php?'; url += 'id=341374&usernum=3459835718&cpv=1'; curl='http://counter41.bravenet.com/counter.php?id=341374&usernum=3459835718'; doit('<a href="'+url+'" target="_top"><img border="0" src="'+curl+qs+'" /></a>') </script> <noscript> <a href="http://counter41.bravenet.com/index.php?id=341374&usernum=3459835718&cpv=1" target="_top"><img src="http://counter41.bravenet.com/counter.php?id=341374&usernum=3459835718" alt="Bravenet.com" border="0" /></a> </noscript>  </div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="354"><div> <I><B><U>News and Views Headlines</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Satellite TV discussion</U></B></div> <div> Rural Australia needs to communicate better with each other and to the rest of Australia. With digital video cameras and two way internet connection (telstra broadband) we can bring images of rural Australia to the world`s lounge rooms via satellite</div> <div> <A HREF="id174.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Satellite TV discussions"><U><I><B>Click here </B></I></U></A><I><B>to read how it </B></I><I><B><U>can </U></B></I><I><B> be done</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>------------------------------------</B></I></div> <div> <B><U>Quotes</U></B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" >From John Howard`s speech on Aug 1st 2001 at the National Press Club</FONT></div> <div> This is from his introduction</div> <bR> <div> This is from his environment section of the speech</div> <bR> <div> <U>"In the process the property rights of individual Australians must be fully respected.  The right to compensation must be included in our policy prescriptions."</U></div> <bR> <div> From Queensland Country Life</div> <bR> <div> Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson recently said this at the Qld National Party State Conference</div> <bR> <div> <U>" We cannot expect farmers to fulfil the expectations of the community, and the legal requirements of government, to develop their properties, and then expect the farmers to carry the whole cost when the community and government changes it`s mind."</U></div> <bR> <div> He is promising to achieve water rights and adequate compensation for landholders.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Landcare group proposes tree lease idea</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> The fiveways landcare group in N.S.W. is proposing a tree lease back to the state government as a way to break the dead lock between landholders and government departments in their region.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="leaseback"><U><I><B>Click here for full story</B></I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="212"><bR> <div> <I><B><U>Vegetation  Quiz</U></B></I></div> <div> <I>test how well you understand a qld property by</I></div> <div> <A HREF="id177.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Veg Quiz"><U><I> </I></U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#666600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id177.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Veg Quiz"><U><I><B><U>clicking here</U></B></I></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>===================</I></div> <div> <I><B><U>Are Icecaps and Glaciers melting and is the sea level rising?</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> There is evidence of a small amount of Global warming (1degree Celcius) but is that resulting in the icecaps and Glaciers melting, and how much does that have to do with sea levels?  Click beow to find out. For more info on Global Warming see articles. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Icecaps and Sea Levels"><U><I><B>Click here</B></I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFCC80 WIDTH="146"><div> Why the land needs people</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why the land needs people"><U><IMG SRC="1aa95700.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why the land needs people"><U><I>Click here</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Constitution"><U>C</U></A><A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Constitution"><U>onstitution </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id198.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to become a member"><U>How to become a member</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="212"><div> <U>Meet some landholders </U></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Richard and Judy Makim"><U><IMG SRC="179998a0.jpg" border=0 width="153" height="138" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Richard and Judy Makim"><U><B>Richard Makim</B></U></A> - Grazier, former chairman of McKinlay landcare group, executive committee member of southern gulf catchments, winner of 1995 beef improvement association`s Howard Yelland award, former vice president of Qld Cattlemen`s Union, Chairman of North Australian Beef Co-operative (Beefco) 1999 Citizen of the year McKinlay Shire, married to Judi with 7 children.</div> <bR> <div> Richard speaks about his success with time-controlled grazing, about the future prospects for Landcare and Catchment Management and his opinion of the direction natural resource management is taking. <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#666633" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=3 BGCOLOR=#336666 WIDTH="146"><div> Tools for managing the land</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tree pulling"><U>Tree pulling</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fire"><U>Fire</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grazing and animal impact"><U>Grazing &</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grazing and animal impact"><U>Animal Impact</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id166.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jocks interview"><U>An interview with Jock Douglas </U></A></FONT><A HREF="id166.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jocks interview"><U>proposing an</U></A><A HREF="id166.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jocks interview"><U> Australian Landcare Management System (ALMS)</U></A></div> <div> ==============================</div> <div> FREEDOM OF SPEECH - Scientific American has threatened to sue Bjorn Lomborg if he puts his reply to criticisms of HIS book" the Skeptical environmentalist" on HIS web site - <A HREF="id173.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bjorn Lomborgs reply to Scientific Ameri"><U>click here to see Lomborgs reply </U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=3 COLSPAN=2 WIDTH="568"><div> <I><B><U>Recomended Articles</U></B></I></div> <div> Read articles by Dr. Christine Jones on an alternative explanation for dry land salinity in many areas of Australia.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Controlling the salinisation process"><U>The Great Salinity Debate Part 1</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rechargedischarge model is flawed"><U>The Great Salinity Debate Part 2</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Soil organic matter"><U>The Great Salinity Debate Part 3</U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>B: a more realistic model</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Prior to Settlement                                                Today     </B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d3a3790.gif" border=0 width="163" height="121" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                <IMG SRC="1d4ac760.gif" border=0 width="172" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Healthy perennial groundcover, fibrous root mass and associated humic materials HOLD water where it falls with some percolation to groundwater.     Loss of healthy groundcover in both upper and lower catchments results in more runoff, lateral flow, recharge and discharge. Replenishment of elevated aquifers may be reduced.     </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CC6633 WIDTH="146"><div> <B>The relationship between sustainable production and conservation</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Conservation v. Sustainability"><U><B>Click here</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div>    </div> </td> </tr></table></body>