Anya Salmon and Elsie Baker have recently commenced their roles and look forward to bringing their extensive expertise in working with landholders and stakeholders across the region.

Anya Salmon will be a familiar face to many in the region through her previous role as executive officer at Gwymac Landcare in Inverell, where she gained years of valuable experience that she will easily transfer to the new role.  The focus of Anya’s role with the Environment Team includes the effective liaison between Northern Tablelands LLS and the four Landcare networks in the region. 

Ensuring the effective flow of information is maintained between the offices will provide multiple benefits in her delivery of natural resource management projects to the region.

“I’m looking forward to identifying the range of opportunities where Northern Tablelands LLS can successfully collaborate with Landcare to deliver strategic projects across a variety of fields delivering tangible results,” said Anya.

Anya’s support for the Landcare offices will extend through Tenterfield, Glen Innes, Armidale and Inverell and focus initially on projects for which collaboratively, Northern Tablelands LLS and Landcare have successfully secured funding.  Examples of these include the Regent Honeyeater Project, as well as the RAMSAR conservation wetlands project.

Elsie Baker brings a background in natural resource management, particularly bush regeneration, as well as experience in local government planning, to her new role.  Elsie is based in Glen Innes and will be responsible for managing events, while also responding to expressions of interest from landholders wanting to access LLS support programs to build the environmental capacity of their farms. 

The diversity of Elsie’s role means that she is also very hands-on with the NSW Catchment Action funded Cool Country Koala Project.  The project has contracted the University of the Sunshine Coast to carry out surveying work with their detection dog Baxter in the Northern Tablelands area.

“Working in conjunction with landholders on these projects, such as the Cool Country Koala project and the educational opportunities they present, is really exciting,” said Elsie.

“I’m looking forward to applying my skills, knowledge and background in environmental projects to expanding the habitats of threatened species such as koalas, Bell’s Turtles and the Regent Honeyeater.  It’s a great opportunity to further develop my project management skills in ways that will bring beneficial outcomes across the region,” she said.

Both Anya and Elsie welcome enquiries regarding potential collaborative opportunities and on-farm projects.  Contact Anya Salmon on 02 6720 8306 and Elsie Baker on 0439 094 286.