The Kyeamba Valley comprises about 90,000 ha, with 100 landholders involved in agriculture: cropping, dairying, sheep, and beef production. A PRA was initiated in conjunction with Landcare, a government-funded program to stimulate and support local land and water resource management. The team of researchers strove to include participation throughout the PRA process. They first interviewed 30 landholder families, seeking to elicit individual and family perspectives about social, physical, and economic issues affecting their livelihoods. Themes that emerged from these interviews were used to structure problem identification workshop, attended by 72 landholders. Participants in the workshop prioritized issues. The research team then organized these priorities for subsequent discussion. Finally, small groups of participants explored specific issues in greater depth and began to identify opportunities for action. In this case, the PRA stopped at the initial stages of planning. A second PRA, conducted to assess the results of the first, found that the new connections between local landowners, and the exploration of common concerns led to limited amounts of action on several of those concerns. In this PRA, the scale (large enough to allow new relationships to form among participants but small enough to allow a large proportion of the community to participate) interacted effectively with the type of collaboration (an emphasis on problem identification, discussion, and relationship building) to generate new community networks. The restriction of the PRA to the information collection/planning stages, however, appears to have limited its worth as a tool for generating action.