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- Library Collection RecordAlthough grazing lands are more profitable at higher land conditions, rehabilitation of D condition land requires mechanical or chemical intervention (B. Shepherd, pers comm). These interventions…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) completed for the Queensland Government’s Reef Plan Grazing Best Management Practice (BMP) extension project in the Burdekin catchment,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- extension and education
- grazing bmp.
- Project evaluation
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordLivestock producers desire improved tools to assess the quality and quantity of pasture on offer to adjust stocking rates and provide timely protein and energy supplementation. The NDVI (Normalised…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- diet quality
- livestock productivity
- Mitchell grass
- NDVI
- Queensland
- Library Collection RecordThe 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…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe management of ground cover is central for sustainable pastoral production in the Australian rangelands. Where changes in management achieve an increase in ground cover above the expected, then…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- ground cover
- market-based instrument
- western New South Wales
- 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 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 RecordTechnical and financial barriers to video are now gone. Never before have we been so well equipped to share our story on camera with our communities. While video gear, shooting techniques,…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Best Practices
- communications
- engagement
- marketing
- video
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands Partnership started in the U.S. in 2001 as The Western Rangelands Partnership (Hutchinson, et al.) when 19 western Land-Grant Universities in the United States came together to…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- information systems
- international collaboration
- knowledge sharing
- Mexico
- U.S.
- United Nations
- web portals
- 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 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 RecordIt is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner: Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet?…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- business strategy
- leading practice
- transformational adaptation
- 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 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 RecordFire management recommended for biodiversity conservation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (reduce late dry season fire) contrasts to that for managing woody plant thickening on pastoral lands…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- fire frequency
- fire management
- savanna burning
- Library Collection RecordKiwirrkurra country, in the remote Gibson Desert, hosts important populations of two key threatened species: bilby and great desert skink. These species are sparsely distributed throughout the…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- bilby
- biodiversity protection
- feral cat
- great desert skink
- hunting
- Kiwirrkurra
- Library Collection RecordThe increase in woody plant density in grasslands and the conversion of open woodlands into shrublands (i.e. woody thickening) is a phenomenon that has been increasingly reported in the past decade…Publication Date 2015
- aerial photograph interpretation
- API
- Australia
- Landsat
- western New South Wales
- Western NSW
- woody thickening
- Library Collection RecordIn 2014 Ngadju were granted Native Title over some 10 million hectares of southern Western Australia, including exclusive possession over 5 million hectares of unallocated crown land in the Great…Publication Date 2015
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to estimate geographical distribution of Halocnemum strobilaceum and Artemisia sieberi species, finding the most important variables in the distribution of these…Publication Date 2015
- AUC
- Australia
- geostatistics
- Kappa coefficient
- Maxent
- potential habitat
- Library Collection RecordA joint three year Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (Aus Aid) African training partnership between the University of New England, Armidale and Central West Catchment Management Authority…Publication Date 2015
- African trainees
- Aus Aid
- Australia
- rehabilitation
- training
- waterponding
- Waterspreading
- 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
- Library Collection RecordAt the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, Deniliquin, a project to identify the impact of economic, administrative, and social influences on rangeland management has begun. This paper…Publication Date 2014
- Australia
- New South Wales
- 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 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 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