Logan and Albert Conservation Association
The report Implications of climate change for Australia's World Heritage properties: a preliminary assessment is available from the government website 
Department of Climate Change and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, from June 2009.
In the government's own words
World Heritage properties are important to all people and have a universal value that transcends national boundaries. Australia's 17 World Heritage properties include the world's largest, the Great Barrier Reef, extensive natural and Indigenous places like Kakadu National Park, isolated marine and terrestrial areas such as Macquarie Island, and Sydney Opera House, an architectural masterpiece.
Accordingly we should be able to expect that federal state and local governments will act to protect these significant properties.
You can download and read the report here
Other adapting to climate change publications available here http://www.climatechange.gov.au/impacts/publications/index.html
Climate Change Adaptation Actions for Local Government was released in June. You can read and download that document from this site. http://www.climatechange.gov.au/impacts/localgovernment/pubs/localadaption_localgovernment.pdf
It could be useful to review some of these publications prior to commenting on Draft South East Queensland Climate Change Management Plan. Publications and information is available from http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/climatechange.
Logan City Council's submission to the draft South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 does not yet appear to be available directly on council's website. However it is
accessible in full as part of the minutes of the general meeting of 4 August 2009. Read the minutes and submission here. Go to PD4 File No: 399117-1 Id No: 5977012
You may - or may not - be surprised that Logan asked state government to extend the urban footprint in areas such as Logan Village, Jimboomba, Bahr's Scrub and North Maclean..
Does this reflect your lifestyle values?
A TRIBUTE TO FATHER BENEDETTO SCORTECHINI - A PIONEER, PRIEST & BOTANIST
The name of Father Benedetto Scortechini is relatively unknown or forgotten today even within botanical circles, although many plant species bear his name. Many people know nothing of his life as a pioneer priest in the 1870's, or the part he played in the lives of our early settlers, particularly those of the Irish immigrants to the Logan area of SE Queensland.
His significant contribution, as an avid botanist, to the scientific/botanical knowledge of the flora of SE Queensland, goes mostly unrecognized.
We would like to pay tribute to him by bringing his life and in particular his botanical discoveries and contributions to everyone's attention in this year of celebrations for the Sesquicentenary of Queensland.
You are cordially invited to view
A TRIBUTE TO
BENEDICT SCORTECHINI PIONEER, PRIEST, BOTANIST
18 - 20th September, 10am - 4pm
QUEENSLAND HERBARIUM
Brisbane Botanic Gardens
Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong
AN EXHIBITION COMBINING
BOTANICAL ART, HISTORY AND THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY
by Botanical artist
Janet Hauser and the Qld Herbarium
This exhibition highlights the botanical discoveries and the contributions made by Father Benedict Scortechini (1845 - 1886), to the knowledge of the flora of S.E.Queensland
For more information contact the Queensland Herbarium on 38969326 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A group of Scenic Rim residents have been meeting to discuss matters relating to wildlife in Scenic Rim Regional Council area - all 4000 square kilometres of it. They are investigating forming a branch of WPSQ in the future.Some of the group are members of WPSQ as well as a member of Logan and Albert Conservation Association LACA.
Meanwhile one of the members is hosting a website page.
You can find that here http://hennievandyk.bravepages.com/ScenicRimWildlife/index.html
Coming events will be listed on calendar as much as possible. This page has events for October - November 2009.
Contact Ronda Green (55454 1283 or platypuscorner@bigpond) for more information.
LACAs website be inclusive of this group's activities and members of both groups are welcome to participate at activities meetings etc for each group.
Opportunity for a public comment is being provided by state government. When finalised this South East Queensland Climate Change Management Plan will be used to implement the climate change policies of the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009 - 2031 that was released on Tuesday 28 July 2009. For more information go to the government weblinks here and here where you can download a copy of the draft plan.
You can also request a copy of the plan email your name and postal address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 1800 070 609 (free call).
Climate change is a global phenomenon and there is a wide range of international, national and statewide climate-change mitigation and adaptation initiatives already underway. The Draft South East Queensland Climate Change Management Plan proposes actions suited to the region's geographical, ecological, social and economic characteristics - at regional and local-government planning scales.
The South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 and the associated regulatory provisions were released on Tuesday 28 July 2009. This plan supersedes the previous South East Queensland Regional Plan 2005-2026 and follows an extensive review and consultation process. There is a swarm of articles, media releases etc as a range of groups read and digest the documents.
The plan is available for reading and download from this Department of Infrastructure and Planning website.
If you are concerned about what is planned to happen in SEQ as far as population growth, housing and future developments - whether the iconic and vulnerable koala and its essential habitat is protected, these documents are essential reading.
Watch this space for more information.
Redands and Sunshine Coast councils have posted their submissions to draft SEQRP - Logan will do so soon and the links for all will be posted here. Scenic Rim submission link will be included when available also.
VERESDALE SCRUB PLANT IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOPS
THIS SATURDAY 1st AUGUST 2009 BETWEEN 8.30am and 11.30am
AT THE BEAUDESERT MARKETS
BEAUDESERT INFORMATION AND ARTS CENTRE
in the Activity Room at the Centre
Cnr Enterprise Drive and Mt Lindesay Highway
The short workshops will be run every 30 minutes and will take participants through the basics of identifying local rainforest plants.
The WORKSHOPS ARE FREE and everyone is welcome.
LACA president and natural resource management guru Andy Grodecki and botanist, botanical arist and rare plant specialist Janet Hauser will be presenting the workshops. Drop in and find our about the endangered dry vine rainforest system which grows only here in the Scenic Rim and Logan City.
These workshops are part of LACA's Envirofund Project funded by the Australian Government
Enquiries: Ph 0408 785448
Members of the community have until 22 July 2009 to comment on Draft Recreation Master Plan for the Wyaralong Dam Project . More details are available in Beaudesert Times for 8 July 2009.
According to Queensland Water Infrastructure Pty Ltd, QWI, they have been working with such key stakeholders as
Local groups and governing bodies for independent recreation (e.g bushwalking and orienteering), cycling, water sports and the equine community
Schools and outdoor education providers
Scenic Rim Regional Council
Tourism Queensland
Queensland Outdoor Recreation Federation
Sport and Recreation Queensland
Department of Infrastructure and Planning
The state government is proposing a number of changes to the Koala Plan to address basically two broad issues - for inclusion in the SPP. Your thoughts on the government's proposed responses to these issues are needed to help government draft the SPP before it is released for public consultation later this year.
State governent has identified a number of common concerns they believe are critical to the future viability of SEQ's koala population.
These concerns can be consolidated into two broad issues
Up-to-date and accurate koala habitat maps
Stronger and more effective koala conservation measures, balanced against environmental, social and economic needs.
Share your views online. Clicking on the link to the left will take you to the page to fill in online your comments. Closing date 28 August 2009