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Abandon The Paddock : A Valid Method Of Rehabilitation?, Max Abensperg-Traun

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The scale of the revegetayion needed to combat land and habitat degradation can only be achieved over a long period of time. An alternative to revegitation is to abandon parts oof the farm for passive regeneration. Max Abensperg-Traun, and his colleagues from CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, report on some outomes from such a strategy.

Rex ' 96 : An Expert Guide To Revegetation, David Bicknell

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Agriculture Western Australia has provided coordination and technical input to a powerful source of information on plants for Australian conditions. David Bicknell outlines some of its features and uses.

Farmers, local government, advisers and even gardeners often have trouble finding the right plant for the right place for a given purpose. Rather than spend a lot of time, money and effort looking through scattered sources of information, many people stick with a limited number of species year after year. This neglects plants that may be much better suited to the purpose, and also fails to develop Australia's huge range of …

Honey Production In Western Australia, Rob Manning

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

the first ever survey of the potential production and value of apiary products from the south-west of Western Australia has shown beekeepers are collecting only 10 per cent of the potential honey crop.

The biggeest losses in honey production are caused by the enviroment, such as protracted drought, and extreme temperatures, heavy rain and cyclones during flowering. Fire, apiary sites leased but not used, and logging of forests also reduce the availability of apiary sites for honey production.

Wildlife Corridors In The Wheatbelt, Richard Hobbs, Denis Saunders

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Native vegetation in the Western Australian wheatbelt now persists mostly in small areas that remained uncleared for various reasons. (See 'Remnant vegetation on farms is a valuable resource' on page 43.) On their own, most of these remnant areas are difficult to manage, and too small to retain viable populations of many of the birds and other animals found in the wheatbelt. These patches of vegetation can be linked by wildlife corridors, which may increase the ability of the wildlife to move about and persist in the area

Protecting The Remnants, Glenis Ayling

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Our native flora and fauna do best in their own environment, so one way of protecting them is to conserve and maintain areas of remnant vegetation throughout our farmlands. This is the aim of the Remnant Vegetation Protection Scheme in which the State Government helps private landholders to voluntarily fence off and manage areas of native vegetation on farms.

Can Kangaroos Survive In The Wheatbelt?, Graham Arnold

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

One of the costs of agricultural development in Western Australia over the past 100 years has been the loss of most of the native vegetation and, consequently, massive reductions in the numbers of most of our native fauna. Thirteen mammal species are extinct and many bird and mammal species are extinct in some areas. These losses will increase as remnant native vegetation degrades under the impact of nutrients washed and blown from farmland, from the invasion by weeds and from grazing sheep.

Even kangaroos are affected. Unless the community manages remnant vegetation to minimise degradation and enhance the regeneration of …

Land Capability And Land Use In The Leeuwin-Naturaliste Region, Peter John Tille, Neil Lantzke

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The Leeuwin-Naturaliste region is one of Western Australia's most beautiful areas. Located in the far south-west corner of the State, it is a popular scenis and tourist spot, as well as supporting grazing, horticultureal and viticultural enterprises.

Outside of perth the region is the most popular tourist destination in the state. It is also responsible for about a quarter of the State's milk production, and 15 percent of the state's potato production and a quarter of the State's wine grapes.

Many new agricultural enterprises have opened up in the past 15 years, and the population has increased by almost 40 …

W.A. Wildflowers Are Unique, Alexander S. George

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Western Australian wildflowers are some of the most unusual and fascinating in the world. Of the 3,000-odd species growing in the southwest, about 85 per cent, grow nowhere else in the world.

Introduction Of The Red-Browed Finch To Western Australia, John L. Long

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE Red-browed Finch (Estrilda temporalis) has been established probably since 1958 in orchard clearings in Darling Range gullies east of Perth.

Although some concern has been shown at the introduction of a new species to Western Australia, it appears to be of little economic importance.

Trees Of Western Australia. 101. The Salt River Mallett (Eucalyptus Sargentii Maiden). 102. The Two-Winged Gimley (Eucalyptus Diptera C.). 103. Eucalyptus Burdettiana Blakely Et Steedman. 104. The Moort (Eucalyptus Platypus Hook), Charles Austin Gardner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

WITH the ever-increasing spread of salt in certain poorly-drained soils in Western Australia, any plant which tends to restrict salt encroachment is of considerable economic importance.

In the genus Eucalyptus there are a few trees which will withstand a certain degree of soil salinity.

Farm Flora Sancturies, Robert Dunlop Royce

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

NOW that several species of native plants have become totally extinct and many more are becoming rare almost to the point of extinction, interest in the scientific and aesthetic potential of the West Australian flora is awakening.

Trees Of Western Australia. 83. The Many Flowered Mallee (Eucalyptus Cooperiana F. Muell). 84. The Yate (E. Cornuta Labill.). 85. The Grey Gum (E. Griffithsii Maiden). 86. E. Albida (Maiden And Blakely), Charles Austin Gardner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THIS species was described by Mueller in February, 1880, from a fragment with buds and flowers without fruits, collected by George Maxwell in South-Western Australia, without any locality.

It remained imperfectly known until a few years ago when a specimen was collected, again without precise locality, but somewhere between Esperance and Eyre,

Trees Of Western Australia. 87. Eucalyptus Kruseana F. Muell. 88. Eucalyptus Macrandra F. Muell. Ex. Benth. 89. Mallalie. 90. The Rose Mallee (Eucalyptus Rhodantha Blakely And Steedman), Charles Austin Gardner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THIS very decorative shrub was described by Baron von Mueller in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy in 1895 from specimens collected in the Fraser Range.

Trees Of Western Australia. 79. Eucalyptus Foecunda (Schau.). 80. Fluted Horn Mallee (E. Stowardii Maiden). 81. Eastern Goldfields Horned Mallee (E. Eremophila Maiden). 82. Oldfield's Mallee (E. Oldfieldii F. Muell.), Charles Austin Gardner

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THIS species is a mallee with an average stature of 5-15 feet, with several erect twiggy branches, the bark smooth except at the very base where unshed patches of a dark greyish-brown adhere to the stems, otherwise it sheds in small plates, leaving a smooth grey-brown bark.