This is the first edition of Cape York Natural Resource Management's Cape York Healthy Country Newsletter. The edition contains a message to the people of Cape York from the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the time, Joseph Elu and the CEO, Bob Frazer explaining how the Newsletter seeked to provide a stream of knowledge related to NRM, Governance and working towards a healthy country. The Newsletter also contains an article about the formation of Cape York Natural Resource Management; the last of 56 legal bodies to be set up across Australia and the then future aims of the organisation.