Laterised sandstone outcrop and weedy regrowth in landscape cleared for grazing. Geoff Tracey, CSIRO ecologist, with look of exasperation. Near Kogan, west of Darling Downs, Queensland, July 1969.

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Image No. 3-107
Land Use -- Queensland -- South West
Laterised sandstone outcrop and weedy regrowth in landscape cleared for grazing. Geoff Tracey, CSIRO ecologist, with look of exasperation

Near Kogan, west of Darling Downs, Queensland

July 1969

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Extensive clearing of "brigalow country" in the 1950s and 1960s in Queensland included much country of this type with land degradation the obvious and predictable outcome. See notes for Image 3-44.
Medium layered woodland with Eucalyptus crebra and Acacia cunninghamii on laterised Blythesdale sandstones.

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