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- Library Collection RecordThe spread of invasive native shrub (INS) is a major problem in the semi-arid zone of western NSW. Although there are well established methods to control these plants, prohibitive cost and/or limited…Publication Date 2008
- costs
- semi-arid
- Library Collection RecordGrazing management has conventionally involved continuous or rotational systems. These may result in strong grazing gradients from watering points and accentuation of problems relating to selective…Publication Date 2008
- grazing management
- pastoral society
- Library Collection RecordIn the past fifteen years, the Desert Uplands Committee, as a strong, progressive grass roots group, has initiated and implemented innovative on-ground projects, region-specific research and many,…Publication Date 2008
- Central Queensland
- innovative
- Progress
- Library Collection Record“Beefplan†was originally designed by MLA some ten years ago as an experiment. MLA recognised that a lot of the results of research in northern Australia were still sitting on the shelf and had…Publication Date 2008
- research
- Business Management
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn recent years there has been recognition of, and importance placed on rehabilitation of the Australian landscape. Rehabilitation targets are being set by natural resource management (NRM) bodies…Publication Date 2008
- rehabilitation
- reclamation
- cattle
- Burdekin Catchment
- Library Collection RecordAt present the only penalty that land administrators may use in managing a lease is forfriture. There is a need for administrators to be able to use less severe penalties. A system of fines is…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordUsing principles established by Maslow the relationship between a manager's needs and the stocking strategy he adopts is explored. Conclusions from economic and social surveys of the arid zone…Publication Date 2014
- arid Australia
- Australia
- Land Acts
- principles
- Library Collection RecordBoth the condition and the productive potential of Australia's rangelands indicate a neglect of these resources by governments, research organisations and teaching institutions. There is a need…Publication Date 2014
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordIt would be fair to say that this society was created because a group of rangeland scientists arrived at the conclusion that there was a need for change in which Australian rangelands are used and…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- created
- objectives
- Library Collection RecordIn 1976, the Animal Industry and. Agriculture Branch of the Department of the Northern Territory commenced a systematic survey of pasture conditions on cattle stations in the Alice Springs district.…Publication Date 2014
- Agriculture Branch
- Alice Springs
- animal industry
- Australia
- Department of the Northern Territory
- Library Collection RecordThe concepts of range condition assessment have been widely (though not universally) accepted in principle by personnel concerned with rangelands in western New South Wales. The methodology and its…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe argument that rangeland managers should assess the condition of their vegetation stresses the serious costs, to the nation and to the manager, which may arise from failing to do this. At this…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Rangeland Managers
- Library Collection RecordA joint team from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Land Information has recentlycompleted its largest endeavour yet - land classification, mapping and resource evaluation of 181,…Publication Date 2004
- land classification
- mapping
- pastoralism
- resource evaluation
- Library Collection RecordThere is little documented information of the performance of grazing cattle in the Pilbara.Similarlythere is no information on the quality of the diet that cattle actually select on the different…Publication Date 2004
- quality
- systems
- lactation stage
- Library Collection RecordBeef cattle production has been carried out on the basalt soils - Queensland bluegrass (Dicanthiumsericeum) areas of the Great Dividing Range in south -east Queensland for over 100 years. However,the…Publication Date 2004
- Dicanthium sericeum
- south-east Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe main land resource dataset in the Kimberley is reconnaissance land systems mapping conducted ata scale of 1:250,000 by CSIRO in the 1950s. Land systems delineate areas of recurring patterns…Publication Date 2004
- mapping
- land management
- Library Collection RecordThis report outlines the methods and results of a survey of experienced rangeland practitionersundertaken in 2003, regarding the relative palatability of a number of perennial plants in the…Publication Date 2004
- E. crenulata
- Eremophila fraseri
- M. convexa
- Maireana amoena
- Maireana platycarpa
- Library Collection RecordAlthough fences are ubiquitous in Australian landscapes, they are neglected objects of study. Fencesare the basic management tools used to separate property, livestock and crops, and to…Publication Date 2004
- livestock
- crops
- management
- Library Collection RecordRoberts (1996) cited the pastures of the Channel Country as the equal of any of the great floodedsystems of the world - the Okavango Delta, the flooded Pampas and the Pantanal. However, anyonewho has…Publication Date 2004
- hydrology
- unique
- Library Collection RecordStudies in temperate and sub -tropical Australia indicate that trees play a major role in nutrient cyclinge.g.Attiwell etal.(1978) and hence are important in maintaining system productivity…Publication Date 2004
- nutrient cycling in ecosystems
- productivity
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordThe Barkly Rangeland Management Course was initially developed in 1999 through Landcare supportand Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) funding. It was developed in response to requests from landholdersfor…Publication Date 2004
- beef
- Barkly Region
- pasture dynamics
- Library Collection RecordIn Western Australia there are approximately 474 pastoral stations covering about 90 million hectaresor 36% of the State.Changing community expectations as to how land is managed, along…Publication Date 2004
- Globalization
- Pastoral Industry
- Library Collection RecordThe Pastoral Program has recently produced a field guide of native and introduced plants that occurwithin the rangelands region of South Australia. The guide is of a convenient size, durability,…Publication Date 2004
- native species
- tourism
- non-native species
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding the challenges facing land managers in the rangelands of New South Wales is theprimary objective of `Semi -arid Land Management', a unit of study we run in the…Publication Date 2004
- rural areas
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe adjusted mean frequency of live Mitchell grass (Astrebla spp.) in western Queensland grazed bysheep, cattle and large macropods declined from 75 to 45% between 2002 and 2003, following a nineyear…Publication Date 2004
- mortality
- drought
- Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe 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…Publication Date 2004
- native species
- sheep
- cattle
- abattoirs
- South Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn the 1860s when pastoral enterprises were first established in the Dalrymple Shire, cattle weremanaged using an open -range system, with low inputs and low outputs (Allingham 1976). Despite…Publication Date 2004
- cattle
- technology
- Library Collection RecordCyanobacteria are well renowned for their survival strategies in harsh environments and can toleratelongperiodsof desiccationresultingfrom acute water deficiency (Wynn- Williams2000).Cyanobacteria in…Publication Date 2004
- Soil surface properties
- drought
- Library Collection RecordIt has been said in the last few years that the management of rangelands must proceed through three stages:- (1) An inventory of the natural resources; (2) Determination of the successional stage of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central Australia
- inventory
- natural resources
- Library Collection RecordIn order to assess the current level of stock watering facilities on pastoral properties within the western Riverina, and to relate this information to paddock size and vegetation type, large areas…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Paddock
- Riverina district
- stock water supplies
- Library Collection RecordThe green standing material,dry standing material and litter in the herbaceous layer of a Central Australian woodland were sampled using sets of nested quadrats of various proportions. By minimising…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- biomass
- Central Australia
- herbaceous vegetation
- woodland
- Library Collection RecordThe problems confronting those concerned with the management of wildlife, particularly the larger species of wildlife such as kangaroos, are similar to the problems of those involved in range…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- northwestern New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordA number of different criteria have been used to determine the response of rangeland to management and as an index of range condition (Parker,1954). The most common methods involve estimates of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- rangeland grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe initial study program relating to reclamation of the hard eroded ridges of the Cobar Pediplain, has recently been completed at Cobar Experimental Area.
 The studies involved treatment of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Cobar Experimantal Area
- New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordLand system mapping of the resources of the arid and semi-arid lands in Queensland is continuing. To date, some 31 million hectares of pastoral land have been mapped. The reports, have either been…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- hectares
- rangeland inventories
- Library Collection RecordChanges in cover afforded by sandhill canegrass (Zygochloaparadoxa) have been studied on a low dune near Menindee in Western New South Wales for 23 years. Areal cover of live and dead culms has…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Dunes
- Sandhill Canegrass
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of climate and grazing by rabbits on black bluebush Maireana pyramidata seedlings growing on sand dunes and scalded loam flats was studied over a four- year period near Meninde, N.S.W.…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Black Bluebush
- Maireana Pyramidata
- rabbits
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordNumerous lists of plant species, ranging from excursion notes to ecological surveys, have been published in New South Wales during the last one hundred years (Pickard 1972). The more detailed of…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- Central-Western New South Wales
- pastures
- trangie
- Library Collection RecordSurface runoff in the mulga (AcaciaaneuraF.Muel.) lands of south western Quensland was recorded from small plots using both natural and artificial rainfall. Runoff was higher from the hard mulga and…Publication Date 2014
- artificial rainfall
- Australia
- Mulga
- runoff
- South Western Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe numbers and canopy size of shrubs and trees increased on the majority of Western AustralianRangeland Monitoring System (WARMS) sites in the arid and semi -arid shrublands of WesternAustralia over…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- Arid
- recruits
- semi-arid
- Library Collection RecordThe Fortescue River floodplain in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is subject to periodicflooding during the summer months, especially during the months of January and February.Flood…Publication Date 2004
- summer
- grazing
- Pilbara region
- Vegetation Response
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordAn increasing number of producers in the Australian rangelands are requesting objective informationon vegetation change and condition to assist in property management. It is now generally accepted…Publication Date 2004
- management
- satellite imagery
- software development
- Library Collection RecordThe Western Australian Rangeland Monitoring System (WARMS) provides change information onpastoral rangelands at broad scales, through a set of representative, point -based sites (Watson andNovelly,…Publication Date 2004
- rainfall
- Library Collection RecordThe woodlands of northern Australia are a significant natural resource, with beef cattle productionbeing the single biggest industry.In Queensland, 60M ha of woodland carry c. 2.1M cattle, withannual…Publication Date 2004
- resources
- cattle
- biodiversity
- Northern Australia
- Library Collection RecordSoil cover levels have been listed in the Catchment Management targets of the NSW CatchmentManagement Authorities (CMAs) because of the strong link between soil cover and erosion. Total soilcover can…Publication Date 2004
- erosion
- perennials
- modelling
- Soil Cover
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangeland Assessment Program (RAP) is an operational site -based monitoring system measuringvegetation change in western New South Wales (Green et al. 2001). The initial design of the…Publication Date 2004
- trends
- land condition
- Library Collection RecordPerennial and annual grass densities and cover (more so) have fluctuated with rainfall since 1993 buthave generally increased. Low mean density and cover values have eventuated in years with…Publication Date 2004
- density
- flooding
- Library Collection RecordACRIS is the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System. It is a coordinating mechanismthat brings together rangeland information from State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth…Publication Date 2004
- management
- government
- Library Collection RecordIn the summer of 1974 -75 wildfires burnt 3.75 million ha of rangeland country in western New South Wales. Most of this was in woodland vegetation mallee, belah or bimble box, where many of the…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- western New South Wales
- Library Collection RecordRunoff and soil water have been measured on differently managed areas of shrub invaded semi -arid woodland near Coolabah, in north-western N.S.W. Measurements commenced in spring of 1975 and are…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- northwestern New South Wales