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Image No. 14-59

Land Use -- Queensland -- Central

Dairying on cleared rainforest landscape

Broken River road, Eungella Range, Queensland

November 1963

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Wastage of valuable rainforest timber is obvious from the large stumps and burnt logs. Impacts of overclearing of trees in upper catchments and landscapes unsuitable for farming, which continues in Queensland one hundred and fifty years after European settlement, are now widespread. See comments under Images 14-38, 3-88, 3-9 and 3-10.
Cleared notophyll vine forest on soils derived from granite.

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