Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 3-1

Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics Rainforest cleared and burnt for beef cattle grazing Between Atherton and Ravenshoe, Queensland December 1963 Larger image (129K)

Steep slopes liable to soil slumping and weed invasion, particularly Lantana camara.
Complex notophyll vine forest on basaltic red loams on wet uplands approx. 1000 metres.
References:
Webb, L.J. (1957) "Catchment deterioration - a combined agricultural and forestry problem". Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 23:251-252.
Tracey, J.G. (1986) Trees on the Atherton Tableland: Remnants, Regrowth and Opportunities for Planting. Working Paper 35, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

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