How does their pasture grow? Trial will tell
Streambank rehabilitation project kicks off
How does their pasture grow? Trial will tell
Agriculturist Joe O’ Reagain and Bridie Jenkins check the pH level of the soil on the airstrip at Maryvale Station.
Streambank rehabilitation project kicks off
Streambank repairs along Logan Creek— a Burdekin River tributary— following the massive 2021 floods aim to restore land function, stop erosion in its tracks, and help keep sediment out of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Logan Creek remediation area, in the Brigalow Belt Bioregion, features alluvial creek flats and clay plains supporting valuable ecosystems, including endangered and of-concern Brigalow vegetation communities.
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What plants work best, and where, was what a collaboration of graziers, extension officers and scientists hope to learn from three rows of seed planted along the edge of an airstrip at Maryvale Station, Charters Towers.
More than 55 species of grasses, legumes and forage trees were planted along the three rows of freshly ploughed furrows to see what would work in the basalt soil and what wouldn’ t.
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