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The basalt is an area of productive grazing country north and west of Charters Towers. Graziers
regard it as a resilient land type and pasture community (Bothriochloa spp. and Heterpogon
contortus) that recovers well from grazing and drought. Bothriochloa pertusa is an introduced,
grazing adapted, stoloniferous, pasture grass that has expanded from initial introductions in the
Bowen region in the mid 1900’s (Bisset 1980). Graziers and extension staff, who long attributed the
B. pertusa expansion to overgrazing, are now reporting the species . . . . .