The closing date for submissions to the Travelling Stock Reserves review has been extended.
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The NSW government wants community input on the uses of the 6500 TSRs across the state.
Farmers, bushwalkers, campers and fishers, local Aboriginal communities and environmental groups are encouraged to make a submission before the close of business on Friday, July 5.
The Travelling Stock Reserve review will help determine how the routes are used and valued by the community.
This evidence will help in decisions on how to best protect and manage the land for its current and future uses.
To assist in responding to the discussion points raised in the consultation paper, the government has created an online mapping tool to allow you to investigate TSRs in your local area.
Meanwhile, more than 7000 land managers across the Murray region who pay Local Land Services rates or have a Property Identification Code are in the process of completing their annual land and stock returns.
The returns are essentially a census for livestock on 30 June each year and include all stock six months of age or older, regardless of whether they belong to the landholder, are agisted or on the property for any other reason.
Murray LLS Biosecurity and Emergency Services manager Geoff Corboy said it was important for landholders to complete a return, even if they have no stock.
“NSW produce is free of many of the pests and diseases found in other parts of the world,” Mr Corboy said.
“That is why Local Land Services works with land managers to monitor herds and flocks and share up-to-date advice and information to increase productivity.
“This information helps us go directly to the people whose land or stock may be affected in an emergency in our region.”
Pigs of any age should be counted, as well as flocks of 100 or more poultry.
Land managers can lodge their returns online at www.lls.nsw.gov.au.
Returns need to be lodged by August 31.
