Soil conservation: Projects

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Gully erosion is a significant challenge in grazing lands across northern Queensland, particularly in areas with highly erodible soils. These gullies can drastically reduce the productivity of grazing land, reduce water quality for downstream environments, and require ongoing costly interventions if left unmanaged. This project focuses on addressing this issue by trialling practical, cost-effective remediation techniques on Spyglass Research Station. We applied two levels of treatment; high-intensity works with major earthworks, engineered erosion-control structures, and extensive soil amendments across the treatment areas; and medium-intensity works using smaller scale earthworks targeting smaller gullies in line with typical grazing-enterprise capacity.

The Rehabilitation of degraded land to increase soil carbon storage in Northwest Queensland project trialed and demonstrated innovative on-farm practices that may lead to increased  sequestration of carbon in…
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The Recovery of the water cycle on grazing lands – cumulative impacts of changing pasture condition on retention of water, sediment and nutrients on Burdekin hillslopes project looked…
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The area being regenerated was eroded early in the 1970s as a result of overgrazing, causing the loss of topsoil and the formation of a small gully. The…
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