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Validating remotely sensed land condition products for Paddock to Reef reporting

The goal of the project is to test, validate and recommend a set of land condition products (LCPs) to help evaluate the impact of management practice, and practice…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part IV: The Kimberley rehabilitation program and lessons for the Great Barrier Reef catchments

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part III: Economic analysis of rehabilitation techniques in the Burdekin River catchment to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part II: Literature review of rehabilitation methods to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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Impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement. Part I: Rehabilitation methodologies to improve water quality flowing from grazing lands onto the Great Barrier Reef

Project RRRD.024 Final Report for the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. This project investigated the potential to mechanically rehabilitate…
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Burdekin Rangelands Reef Extension

As a component of the Queensland Government’s Reef Protection Package, the Burdekin Rangelands Reef Extension project aimed to help industry adopt appropriate management strategies to  improve long term…
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REEFsponsible and viable beef production

The project REEFsponsible and viable beef production aimed to assist enterprises in high erosion risk areas of the Upper Herbert catchment to address ground cover and sediment loss issues…
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ReefSafe Grazing

The project ReefSafe Grazing aimed to work with industry, government, community and graziers to improve grazing land management, increase productivity and profitability and improve water quality in far…
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Reef Rescue – Quantifying the impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands

Rehabilitating degraded lands and increasing ground cover helps to reduce sediment runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef. Although grazing management strategies can often improve ground cover levels, degraded…
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Reef Rescue – Getting ground cover right – thresholds and baselines for a healthier reef

Increasing ground cover and land condition in catchment grazing lands significantly reduces soil erosion and improves the water quality of runoff entering the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) lagoon.…
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