The pastoral lease region of South Australia comprises an extensive area of native vegetation usedprimarily for sheep and cattle grazing. A spatial audit of the pastoral lease lands is currently beingcarried out to identify and quantify areas remote from water.The catalyst for this work was thedelegation to regulate clearance of native vegetation by stock grazing under the Native Vegetation Act1991, from the Native Vegetation Council, to the Pastoral Board within the pastoral lease areas ofSouth Australia. The Native Vegetation Act prohibits the grazing of native vegetation in areas thathave not been regularly grazed in the past. This has focussed attention on the installation of new waterpoints. New water points can only be installed once exemption to the Native Vegetation Act has beenobtained, through developing a water point plan and having this plan approved by the Pastoral Board. ...
Anderson, L., van Klinken, R. D., and Shepherd, D. (2008). Aerially surveying Mesquite (Prosopis spp.) in the Pilbara. In: 'A Climate of Change in the Rangelands. Proceedings of the 15th Australian Rangeland Society Biennial Conference'. (Ed. D. Orr) 4 pages. (Australian Rangeland Society: Australia).
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