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Wild Dog Control In The North-West, R J. Fraser
Wild Dog Control In The North-West, R J. Fraser
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
BECAUSE of its sparsely-settled condition, the North-West of Western Australia is almost an ideal breeding-ground and hunting-ground for wild dogs.
Even the best of the pastoral country is but thinly populated and there are large areas of rugged country which is seldom traversed by white men.
A Successful Campaign Against The Euro, E H M Ealey, T. M. Richardson
A Successful Campaign Against The Euro, E H M Ealey, T. M. Richardson
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
RESULTS from a five-year research programme carried out by the C.S.I.R.O. on the Abydos-Woodstock Pastoral Research Station indicated that euros could be controlled in a practical and economic way by the traditional method of water poisoning,
if it was continued for an extended period and carried out over a large area. Smallscale trials supported this claim, but no opportunity had occurred to assess the practicability of a large-scale poisoning operation.
Rabbit Control In 1960, C Marshall
Rabbit Control In 1960, C Marshall
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
IN the year 1859, an enthusiastic sportsman in Victoria took delivery from the clipper "Lightning" of a small consignment of wild European rabbits which he joyfully released on his estate at Barwon Park, near Geelong, in order to assure himself of some rough shooting.
He was not the only rabbit importer on record—tame rabbits were brought into Australia before and after 1895 and doubtless there were other importations of the wild rabbit—but he is generally credited—or discredited—with having triggered off the rabbit plague.