Mulloon Consulting

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Mulloon Consulting delivers innovative landscape rehydration projects to improve agricultural productivity across Australia. 

Our property and catchment-scale rehydration and restoration approaches are used by farmers across Australia to improve the resilience and productivity of their land. Our globally recognised work allows agriculture and the environment to work together in unison. 

Mulloon Consulting is a specialist consultancy with an unrivalled reputation for providing high quality technical and practical advice to successfully rehydrate and restore agricultural landscapes. We focus on supporting farmers in adapting to new and changing environmental conditions. 

Our landscape rehydration design, approval and construction service, coupled with advice on regenerative land management practices, delivers a range of agricultural and environmental benefits including: 

• landscape rehydration 

• regenerating degraded landscapes 

• reinstating natural landscape function 

• increased soil carbon 

• increased water retention and water quality 

• increased biodiversity 

• improved landscape health 

• increased resilience to climatic extremes 

• improved productivity and profitability. 

Mulloon Consulting’s landscape and hydrology consultants work with farmers, natural resource professionals and other stakeholders on leading edge land and catchment rehydration and restoration projects across the country.  

Mulloon Consulting employs technical excellence and has a rigorous quality assurance and review process. We deliver service excellence across the entire lifecycle of landscape rehydration and regeneration projects, from site assessments and planning, capacity building and on ground works to monitoring and review.  

Mulloon Consulting offers services in Landscape Rehydration to a variety of public and private clients including farmers, government agencies and catchment communities. 

Mulloon Consulting is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mulloon Institute. 

Services

We undertake an initial desktop assessment of your property or catchment using existing mapping, aerial photography, digital data sources and/or drone data to ascertain the extent of possible landscape rehydration and regeneration measures. Implementation of landscape rehydration works can be at any scale; from paddock, to farm, to an entire catchment. Mulloon Consulting provides preliminary advice on the scale and scope of measures that may be suitable for your property, including advice on any regulatory requirements if required. We then discuss the desktop assessment with you, including your goals and aspirations, before we move on to a site inspection. 

Includes: 

• desktop site review 

• spatial data analysis 

• review of regulatory requirements. 

Site Assessment

Following the desktop assessment, our team will visit the site to discuss your goals and explore the opportunities and constraints to implementing landscape rehydration on your property.  

We will identify key management issues and provide advice on the best ways forward to achieving a functional landscape with respectful consideration of your goals and current enterprises. 

Future actions can also be discussed along with improved land management practices that will contribute to positive outcomes. An important part of this review is gaining an understanding of your capacity to implement and manage landscape rehydration works into the future. 

Includes: 

• site visit by Mulloon Consulting  

• goal setting 

• site specific on-ground advice 

• preparation of an Initial Site Inspection report with management recommendations. 

Detailed Designs

Following a site assessment and an Initial Site Inspection Report, we work on the project scope with your input to determine what, where and how the next stage can be achieved.  

We can provide a report with detailed design drawings suitable for constructing landscape rehydration and erosion control measures. These are prepared to engineering standards and include catchment yield analysis to ensure water movement through the site is managed appropriately. Where regulatory approval is required for the works, these detailed design drawings can underpin the information required by regulatory authorities, including state and local government for decision making purposes. 

Includes: 

• detailed design report of landscape rehydration measures 

• detailed design drawings of erosion control measures 

• estimate of quantities for construction purposes 

• quotation for implementation phase. 

Landscape Rehydration Plans

When working at a larger scale or in a broader catchment context, a Landscape Rehydration Plan or Scoping Report is recommended. This considers the broader biophysical nature of the catchment, incorporating   regulatory constraints to develop a plan that is site specific and responds to your goals, budget and timeframe. The Plan/Report will provide clear details of specific measures to build a resilient landscape and recommendations on monitoring and reviewing these measures over time.  

The plan will make recommendations for capacity building and education in landscape rehydration to enhance your ability to manage installations over time, and will provide advice on engaging with your neighbours on the benefits of a catchment-wide approach. 

Includes: 

• easy-to-follow guide for implementing landscape rehydration on your property or catchment 

• detailed plan with location and type of measures required for landscape rehydration 

• detailed engineering designs (if required) 

• site specific troubleshooting 

• recommendations for monitoring and review 

• recommendations for capacity building and education for landscape rehydration 

• details on the benefits of a catchment wide approach. 

Landscape Rehydration Plan Implementation

Mulloon Consulting can implement your Landscape Rehydration Plan in partnership with our specialist contractors and on-ground supervisors. We can also advise on the ongoing management of installations with a focus on vegetation and stock management, and post-rainfall reviews and remediation. 

Includes: 

• surveying and layout of on-ground works 

• construction of on-ground works 

• supervision of on-ground works by qualified landscape rehydration practitioners 

• advice on monitoring and maintenance. 

Monitoring

Our service includes advice and implementation of recommended monitoring of installations and structures to assist in revealing the apparent and measurable benefits of landscape rehydration. Monitoring can range from the establishment of photo points to drone footage, stream gauges, groundwater monitoring and ecological monitoring. Monitoring is best considered early in the project so that baseline data can be collected or before photos and or footage recorded prior to the implementation of works. 

Includes: 

• advice on monitoring to match your goals 

• advice and implementation of a range of monitoring technologies 

• data analysis, management and reporting. 

Capacity Building Workshops

As a subsidiary of the Mulloon Institute and with our links to a range of ground-breaking regenerative farmers and educators, we can provide capacity building and education services to a variety of clients. Mulloon Consulting offer workshops tailored to your community or group, focused on practical on-ground solutions to management issues and providing a workshop or workshop series introducing landscape rehydration, demonstrating the implementation of landscape rehydration measures and discussing maintenance. Workshops on the elements of catchment scale projects can also be presented.  

Includes: 

• education and capacity building 

• landscape rehydration workshops or workshop series 

• on-ground, practical training for land managers 

• mentoring 

• guided visits to the Mulloon Institute 

• workshops at the Mulloon Institute, or in your catchment. 

Regulatory Approvals

We acknowledge that landscape rehydration actions may trigger the need for regulatory approvals. If permits are required, we can provide ongoing assistance in developing and delivering the required information for the approval process. 

Includes: 

• assessment of regulatory framework and approval required 

• development and delivery of supporting information required for regulatory approvals 

• liaison with relevant government agencies 

• regulatory approval application. 

Catchment-Scale Projects

As the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative demonstrates in southern NSW, catchment-scale landscape rehydration immensely benefits the local environment, agricultural productivity and regional communities. 

A critical part of catchment-scale projects, is engaging with its key stakeholders and the broader community, allowing them to observe, learn from, or even contribute their experiences to the project. Engagement also involves local, state and federal governments, philanthropic bodies and the research and corporate sectors. 

By bringing the community along, landholders better understand landscape rehydration processes and learn how to deliver these changes on their own properties. The key to long-term success in catchment-scale landscape rehydration projects is helping landholders through ongoing support to achieve practice change through managed grazing and landscape rehydration. 

Mulloon Consulting provides support for catchment-scale projects in the pre-planning and planning phases, all the way through to developing catchment-scale proposals, rehydration plans and implementation. Mulloon Consulting’s specialist trainers can provide support in engagement and lead the education and training aspects of a catchment scale project.  

Includes: 

• presentations to communities on landscape rehydration and the Mulloon Institute’s experiences 

• workshops with catchment communities 

• scoping reports to identify the key steps and stakeholders in catchment projects 

• catchment-scale detailed design and regulatory approval information 

• catchment-scale construction 

• training landholders in maintaining landscape rehydration measures.