When Tom Green started managing a 4,000 ha property at Cressy 20 years ago, it was solely a grazing business with two main waterways passing through the property, acting as the principal water source for livestock. Now managing 2,300 sheep and 280 cattle with a mixed grazing and irrigated cropping business, it's important for Tom to protect and further develop the native riparian buffer. With support from NRM North's Tamar Action Grants, a plan was hatched to eliminate stock access from the watercourse. With three stages left in an eight-stage project spanning four years, Tom has already erected 15,900 m of fencing and, once complete, will have excluded 20 km of waterway. Clean and reliable stock water is now accessible across the property through 18 new troughs and associated infrastructure.