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Specialising in natural resource and social planning; community consultation and facilitation; values mapping and consensus building, mediation and conflict resolution; policy development; program and organisational diagnosis and development.

In mid 2000, the Taking Action Now! (TAN!) Project team was asked by Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill to work with another project - the Conservation Management Network - to produce a joint application for our third and final year of funding. The Minister felt that there was some overlap between the projects, and it was clear that the Taking Action Now! project would only continue to receive funding as part of a collaborative project.

The joint application was successful, and this means that our work in grassy box woodlands will now continue until June 2002.

The new project team involves

• Community Solutions
• Ecological Interactions (the originators of the CMN project)
• NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
• NSW Farmers' Association
• Charles Sturt University
• WorldWide Fund for Nature
• Representation from Local Government
• Representatives of landholders from the NSW wheat/sheep belt.

The Action Liaison Officers will now be called Rural Liaison Officers and will continue to work in much the same way as to date. We will continue our small grants programs, and we will continue pursue all of the objectives of the TAN! project. We anticipate that our work will be enhanced by the closer interaction with the Conservation Management Network, and the broad representation on our new project team.

If you would like to talk about any of these changes, please contact Geoff, Ray or Toni, We will continue to keep you informed with these seasonal newsletters, and thank you for your ongoing interest in our woodlands work.