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Revegetating Salt-Affected Land With Shrubs, Ed Barrett-Lennard, Fionnuala Frost, Steve Vlahos, Norm Richards
Revegetating Salt-Affected Land With Shrubs, Ed Barrett-Lennard, Fionnuala Frost, Steve Vlahos, Norm Richards
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The establishment of salt-tolerant shrubs such as saltbush and bluebush on salt-affected land reduces the risk of soil erosion, and can also fit into farm programmes as a profitable enterprise. Salt-tolerant shrubs can be used as forage for sheep in summer and autumn, when the availability of annual pastures is low or annual pastures are just beginning to emerge. This article describes three methods for establishing shrubs on salt-affected land and what affects shrub establishment.
Protecting The Remnants, Glenis Ayling
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.
Trees Of Western Australia, Charles Austin Gardner
Trees Of Western Australia, Charles Austin Gardner
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
It is not desirable to give locality names to plants unless their range is fully underwood.
Such names can be very misleading.
Thr following is an illistrated discussion of the identification of five Western Australian trees.