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- Library Collection RecordEngaging landholders in the Western NSW rangelands in previously believed “green†conservation programs,has been limited in the past. The Western Catchment Management Authority’s High…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- engaging
- landholders
- Western NSW
- Library Collection RecordTwo market-based instruments, namely Enterprise Based Conservation, have been operating in western NSW since 2003. These programs provide a cost-effective alternative to the …Publication Date 2010
- community
- conservation
- resilience
- Library Collection RecordInvasive cacti have been identified by the natural resource management community as a major threat to the biodiversity and primary production values of the rangelands of Australia. A number of…Publication Date 2010
- Cacti
- invasive species
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordIn 2006, the Central West and Western Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) began a program of research in collaboration with the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW),…Publication Date 2010
- research
- community engagement
- Invasive native scrub
- Library Collection RecordHave you ever sat and watched what cattle eat in about half an hour? Have you counted the number of species of plants they prefer to eat? To be productive, cattle should have a variety of…Publication Date 2010
- rehabilitation
- costs
- Ponding
- Library Collection RecordHuman impacts have dramatically altered the structure and composition of many communities often resulting in new or novel states that are difficult (and potentially impossible) to reverse. New…Publication Date 2010
- grazing
- Great Artesian Basin
- novel ecosystems
- soil seedbank
- south eastern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe potential exists for land use conflict to arise between coal seam gas mining and traditional agriculture in the Surat Basin in Southern Queensland. Farming and grazing enterprises, businesses and…Publication Date 2010
- agriculture
- coal seam gas
- Great Artesian Basin
- Southern Queensland
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists across five shires in the West Australian (WA) arid shrublands have designed a project to determine how to cost-effectively regenerate the productive capacity of their land. The…Publication Date 2010
- kangaroos
- grazing
- shrublands
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe ability to modify the distribution of grazing livestock is a common desire among farmers, either to protect sensitive areas or to more closely match stocking rate with carrying capacity. …Publication Date 2010
- environmental protection
- automated animal control
- Library Collection RecordA ground cover index (GCI) derived from Landsat TM data is available for Queensland since 1986. It provides a potentially robust means for reporting change in landscape function to the Australian…Publication Date 2010
- remote sensing
- dysfunction
- Queensland
- regional reporting
- Wambiana grazing trial
- Library Collection RecordTrees scattered throughout paddocks have long been considered keystone structures in agricultural landscapes, however little is known about how they actually influence pasture growth. Assessing…Publication Date 2010
- remote sensing
- green pasture biomass
- NDVI
- Library Collection RecordA significant proportion of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) is in the semi arid climatic zone with pastoralism a dominant land-use. Snaking through these rangelands are many thousands of kilometres of…Publication Date 2010
- rivers
- Murray Darling Basin
- water reform
- Library Collection RecordInvasive Native Scrub (INS) is a major problem in thepastoral lands of western NSW. The objective of the project was to test the hypothesis that native perennial grasslands do regenerate in areas…Publication Date 2010
- ground cover plants
- Invasive native scrub
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordAn environment modified for rangelands sheep farming has created conditions where feral goat (Capra hircus) populations can escalate if unchecked. The impacts of feral goats onnative vegetation,…Publication Date 2010
- integrated management
- collaboration
- South Australia
- unmanaged goats
- Library Collection RecordAn understanding of the current amount of total green biomass, total biomass and biomass growth rates is necessary for graziers to better manage pasture utilisation in the northern Australian…Publication Date 2015
- biomass assessment
- pasture growth
- pasture utilisation
- rangeland management
- remote sensing
- stocking numbers
- Library Collection RecordUneven utilisation of pastures is an issue facing extensive cattle properties in the Northern Territory. During the dry season most cattle need to return to water points to drink at least once a day…Publication Date 2015
- intensification
- intensification
- north Australia
- Northern Territory
- pasture utilisation
- rotational grazing
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordWet-season spelling of grazing land is a key recommendation for improving land condition to benefit sustainability, production and profit in agriculture. The Spelling Strategies project aims to…Publication Date 2015
- vegetation
- Central Queensland
- land condition
- pasture yield
- vegetation
- wet season spelling
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on the services and support delivered by the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) to the Burdekin rangelands grazing industry from July 2011 through…Publication Date 2015
- Extension
- practice change
- project
- Queensland
- water quality
- Library Collection RecordThe exotic shrub Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton (rubber bush) is spreading throughout the Barkly Tablelands region (Northern Territory) where land managers are concerned about apparent…Publication Date 2015
- Calotrope
- Chemical
- Queensland
- threat
- weed
- Library Collection RecordThis project seeks to improve the evidence base and modelling capacity underpinning recommendations for the use of wet season spelling to recover poor condition grazing land and design more reliable…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- basal area
- pasture yield
- Library Collection RecordIncreasing world human population, declining reserves of cheaply extracted fossil fuels, fresh water scarcity, and climatic instability will put tremendous pressure on world rangelands as the…Publication Date 2012
- forage
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordGraziers in the Western Catchment of New South Wales (NSW)experience a climate that varies both seasonally and across the region withseveral implications forhow land, water, pasture and animal…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- graziers
- Western Catchment in NSW
- Library Collection RecordNorthern Australian beef businesses are currently facing a challenging time with significant pressure on profitability across all regions. Simultaneously,the community and Government are…Publication Date 2012
- profitability
- carbon sequestration
- greenhouse gas emissions
- north Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe majority of Australian grazing lands have been degraded since European settlement, resulting in loss of soil carbon and reduced capacity to provide ecosystem services, from primary productivity…Publication Date 2012
- grazing lands
- degradation
- south-eastern Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe recent review of Western Australian’s State Planning Strategy sought to refocus, rebuild and reactivate the State’s regional planning capabilities. The strategy is based on six fundamental…Publication Date 2012
- population growth
- economic development
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Finke is often touted as the oldest river on earth. The veracity of this is hard to quantify, as are statements about the Finke’s significant biodiversity. Until recently, limited biological…Publication Date 2015
- arid-zone
- Central Australia
- ecosystem
- refuge
- Library Collection RecordWater is of paramount importance to all people that live in regions such as the Kathi Thanda Lake Eyre, Australia but to Indigenous people such as the Arabana it also holds immense cultural…Publication Date 2015
- Arabana
- Australia
- cultural indicators
- indigenous
- Library Collection RecordThe ecological history of rangelands is often presented as a tale of devastation, where fragile drylands are irreversibly degraded through inappropriate land-use. There is confusion about how to…Publication Date 2015
- degradation
- eastern Australia
- grazing
- rare species
- Vegetation Change
- Library Collection RecordWe report on a project about fire management and indigenous knowledge sharing. Unexpectedly, Martu preferentially chose a video production rather than other media to share knowledge about fire. We…Publication Date 2015
- Aboriginal rangers
- fire management
- Indigenous knowledge
- video production
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe way that Western Arrarnta people pass knowledge down through generations has changed drastically in the last 150 years. Western Arrarnta young people today are educated through a modern…Publication Date 2015
- Central Australia
- digital media
- seasonal chart
- Western Arrarnta
- Library Collection RecordResearch has shown and Indigenous ranger groups and others have demonstrated that the combined use of Western science and Indigenous ecological knowledge increases engagement of Aboriginal people…Publication Date 2015
- Central Australia
- Indigenous ecological knowledge
- two-way communication
- two-way science education
- Library Collection RecordIn the same way our Australian rangelands are incredibly large and diverse, yet with many specific ecosystems, our communication and change programs need to be wide reaching yet targeting specific…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- eExtension
- flipped classroom
- learning journey
- social media
- webinar
- Library Collection RecordNo documentary to date attempts to portray the diverse human and natural geography of the rangelands of Australia. At the end of 2013 Alun Hoggett, film maker with Desert Channels Group began…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Documentary
- film
- geography
- outback
- Library Collection RecordIndigenous people in remote regions of Australia are recognised as one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change (Green and Minchin, 2014). This is despite living in widely dispersed…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- disadvantage
- remote resilience
- remote vulnerability
- transformation
- Library Collection RecordChange has always been a central feature of life in central Australia. For millennia Aboriginal people had to deal with a variable climate in which great fluctuations in rainfall and temperature…Publication Date 2015
- adaptive capacity
- Central Australia
- Central Australia
- liveability
- Library Collection RecordThe threat posed by climate change to cultural heritage and archaeological sites began to ring alarm bells for heritage practitioners over two decades ago. Only very recently, however, has work…Publication Date 2015
- adaptation
- Australia
- cultural heritage
- framework
- ranger group
- Library Collection RecordClimate models indicate that Australia is likely to get hotter, with some data projecting a temperature rise in the range of 3 to 7â—¦C by 2100. Local adaptation responses will be required to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian continent’s rangelands have small populations scattered over huge areas and are characterised by extreme temporal variability and threatening eco-climatic processes and changes …Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThis article presents a range of potential adaptations and innovations and aims at informing about the future transport systems in the rangelands according to different factors of demographic,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe literature is replete with examples of communities which have suffered significant impacts from nearby mine operations and their subsequent closure. Increasingly, there is awareness amongst the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- enduring value
- mine closure
- mine lifecycle
- social responsibility
- Library Collection RecordThe Pilbara Mesquite Management Committee (PMMC) was one of the first community groups in the WA rangelands to focus on partnering with local land managers in developing local solutions to one of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- natural resource management
- partnerships
- rangelands
- weed management
- Library Collection RecordThe 66,640km2 Mount Isa Inlier/Northwest highlands bioregion in north western Queensland is typified by rugged red rocky hills, low open woodland of spinifex and snappy gum and is the location of…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- biodiversity
- engagement
- fire
- Managment
- Queensland
- stakeholder
- Library Collection RecordWhile most of Australia’s aridlands have suffered either total loss or serious declines of native fauna, the Martu lands in WA’s Western Desert in the eastern Pilbara provide one of the last…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Country
- culture
- Martu
- partnership
- threatened
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Local Land Service (LLS) area of operation is large, covering 40% of NSW, with a range of Landsystems and vegetation community types. Under future climate change scenarios, western NSW is…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- climate
- Landsat
- landscape
- refugia
- remote sensing
- time-series
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe land suffered under pastoral management by outsiders across the eastern APY Lands. Grazing management was no better (perhaps worse) than before when we got the APY Act and agistment began. We…Publication Date 2015
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordMTP Contracting is an Indigenous business operating out of Corella Creek Community in the Barkly Tablelands, NT. Established originally as a contract mustering business, MTP has expanded into NRM…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Barkly
- fee-for-service
- indigenous
- innovation
- NRM
- Weeds
- Library Collection RecordIn the many discussions over the last forty years about the significance of Australia-wide Aboriginal fire practices, one concept that has become common is the importance of ‘mosaic burning’ for…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Channel Country
- fire management
- mosaic burning
- settlement
- spinifex
- Library Collection RecordWe report on a collaborative project about climate change and adaptation. The project’s overall goal was to find good ways to build desert Aboriginal people’s understanding of climate change and…Publication Date 2015
- Aboriginal ranger
- Australia
- climate change
- climate science
- erosion control
- indigenous people
- Library Collection RecordThe feral camel is an established pest animal in Australia. The species occurs across an area of about 3.3 million km2 encompassing parts of Queensland (Qld), South Australia (SA), the Northern…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- feral herbivore
- landscape scale
- partnerships
- Library Collection RecordIn ‘The Bush’ Don Watson captures the nub of the rangelands dilemma. “Only about 15% of Australians now live outside the cities and the essentially suburban coastal corridor...Those coastal…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- disruptive change
- governance
- national interest
- policy failure
- rangeland futures
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